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The Romans, Roman Towns, Public entertainment was very important in Rome.…

- - - - Any prisoners of war became slaves
      - Children of slaves automatically became slave themselves
      - People captured by Bandits or Pirates were often sold as slaves
      - Parents in dept sometimes sold their own children into slavery
    - - These cruel conditions led to many rebellions the most famous one led by the gladiator Spartacus in 71 BC/BCE
  - - - 1. Boys (and some girls) From the age of 7 to 12 attended Ludus where they learned reading,writing and arithmetic
      - 2. At 12 boys could attend Grammaticus where they learned history,grammer and geometry and studied literature by Greek and Roman writers such as Homer and Virgil. Girls of the same age were kept at home and taught by their mothers how to spin,weave and run a household
      - 3. At 16 a patrician boy was taught Oratory (the art of public speaking) by a rhetor to prepare him for a career in public life