ANCIENTROME

• The gladiators were Roman slaves, recruited to fight in battles.

• These gladiators had no rights at all.

• Gladiators would battle against each other, the person would by killing the opponent.

• If the emperor didn’t like the battle or thought it was boring the winner would be killed.

• The Gladiators would fight in the Colosseum.

• These gladiator fights attracted so many people. People would take the day off to come and see them fight.

The Colosseum

Roman Gladiators

• This was the biggest attraction in Rome, Italy.

• The Colosseum was originally named the Flavian Amphitheater.

• The Colosseum could hold up to fifty thousand spectators.

• The spectators could see Gladiator battles, mock naval battles and circuses.

• When the spectators went they got free bread and wine.

• Through the twenty first century the Colosseum went through devastating earthquakes and many stone-robbers.

• They started building the Colosseum around 70-72 AD.

• The shape of the theater was a half circle as you can see.

• Roman theaters were influenced by Greek theaters.

• To tell who was playing a man or woman, the men wore brown masks, and a women wore a white mask.

• Women aren’t allowed to preform, only males, playing as females.

• Comedies and tragedies were performed.

• Any citizen could attend free. These were also major events that many people came to see.

• Roman men wore either the toga or tunic.

• The tunic was mostly worn by the working class. The slaves and plebes.

• The toga was worn for public display.

• If someone from the upper class was to wear the tunic, it would be made from expensive linen, instead of woolen.

• Not all the togas were the same, they were each worn a different way or were a different type of material.

• Women wore tunics just like the men, they could be made with different fabrics or colors depending on your social class.

• Married woman had to wear the stola. They also wore perfume, make-up and jewelry.

• The most common footwear was a leather sandal. Almost all social classes wore them, they were dyed to a certain color depending on your social class.

• The shoe was dyed red if your were a patrician.

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Jupiter• Was the king of gods, he was also the god of sky and

thunder.

• Jupiter is also called Jove.

• Jupiter is identical to Zeus.

• The planet Jupiter was named after Jupiter the god of sky and thunder.

• He gave day and night to mankind.

• When the Romans saw lightening and heard a crash of thunder that meant Jupiter was angry.

By, Taylor Simpson