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Gladiator Fighting

Stadiums called amphitheatres (e.g the Colosseum) were used for entertainment as wild animals such tigers and bears were used to fight against prisoners or slaves from North Africa. The wild animals were kept in the underground dungeons of the Colosseum and were starved for weeks until they were let out to fight the gladiators. The Plebians (poor) and the Patricians (rich) in the audience would decide if the gladiator should live or die by putting their thumbs up or thumbs down. If there were more thumbs up then thumbs down the gladiator would live but if there are more thumbs down than up the gladiator would lay there until the wild animal salvaged him do death.

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It was where a gladiator (venator) was pitted against an animal or beast and it was usually a fight to the death. These usually occurred in an amphitheatre.

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lions, tigers, and bears. Hippos. Elephants. Giraffes. cheetahs, leopards, wolves, crocodiles,zebras, boars

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