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Entertainment - Coggle Diagram
Entertainment
Public bath houses
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went to bath houses to clean, meet friends, exercise, eat, read and more
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they did not have soap, so they would cover their bodies in oil
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Religion
Romans were polytheistic, belief in many gods
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household gods - Iares, believed to be spirits of their ancestors
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The afterlife & funerals
Believed that the sprit of a the dead person was rowed across the river styx by Charon, the ferryman to the underworld
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their body was accompanied by relatives, musicians and specially hired mourners
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Circus maximus
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was built from wood, but it was burned down
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Colosseum
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can hold between 50,000 and 80,000 people
Gladiator fights dramas, and more took place here
Gladiator Fighting
Gladiators
normally criminals, captured prisoners or slaves
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winning meant earning money, which they could use to but their freedom
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if the fighting pleased the crowd and Emperor, then he would be spared
if not, he would be killed
Life of a gladiator
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trained by a lanista or 'butcher', an old gladiator
exercises every day with weights, to build body strength
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Before the actual fight, you fight with wooden swords in a practice duel
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Trainer will shout encourage you, shout advice or theaten you
music will play, crows will cheer, as the fighting begins
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