Effects Of Gladiators

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Everything you do equals an effect. gladiators have a choice to live or die. no it's not fair e opened either as he pleased, without knowing whether, in the next minute, he was to be killed or married. The person did something bad so they were put in the arena and had to choose a door and die or live. The person did not know which door had the lady behind it. They also did not know which one had the tiger behind it also.
Gladiators fought for the entertainment of others. Some gladiatorial contests included animals such as bears, rhinos, tigers, elephants, and giraffes. Most often, hungry animals fought other hungry animals. But sometimes hungry animals fought against gladiators in contests called venationes (“wild beast hunts”). On rare occasions,

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