Gladiators were armed combatants who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals and criminals.
Some of the gladiators were volunteers who risked their social standing by appearing in the arena but some of them were criminals, debtors and those condemned to death.
During the formation of the Roman Empire and the settlement thereof, one of the biggest problems is the expansion of slavery.
Because of the victories, the inhabitants of the territories were attached captives and slaves if they could survive or to pay a ransom for them. This happened about two million, considering that the conquered lands had a population of about fifty million. Most of the inhabitants …show more content…
It is difficult to understand that in the same society, at the same time increased the cultural level, it coexisted with special slaves called gladiators, which were used as a distraction from the village.
The gladiators lived in barracks, were trained and risked their lives in the circus sands fighting each other and in turn with beasts. Some of them could not withstand the pressure and committed suicide. Probably the gladiator more "famous" is now "Spartacus", who led the most dangerous insurrection to the Romans on Italian soil. Spartacus was a Thracian place that, although not then a Roman province, was mandatory enlistment in auxiliary detachments natural. After fleeing was captured and he was punished being sold as a gladiator school in Capua.
In the schools of gladiators, men of different nationalities lived (Gauls, Thracians, Germans) with special physical characteristics and prepared to fight. Spartacus got 70 gladiators accompany him in his escape. In flight they took a caravan loaded with arms that took the gladiator school in Capua. They settled in the mountains of Vesuvius, established camps and small raids conducted in nearby locations taking materials to manufacture more weapons, they created a small army with runaway slaves and pawns of the next
Some of the gladiators were volunteers who risked their social standing by appearing in the arena but some of them were criminals, debtors and those condemned to death.
During the formation of the Roman Empire and the settlement thereof, one of the biggest problems is the expansion of slavery.
Because of the victories, the inhabitants of the territories were attached captives and slaves if they could survive or to pay a ransom for them. This happened about two million, considering that the conquered lands had a population of about fifty million. Most of the inhabitants …show more content…
It is difficult to understand that in the same society, at the same time increased the cultural level, it coexisted with special slaves called gladiators, which were used as a distraction from the village.
The gladiators lived in barracks, were trained and risked their lives in the circus sands fighting each other and in turn with beasts. Some of them could not withstand the pressure and committed suicide. Probably the gladiator more "famous" is now "Spartacus", who led the most dangerous insurrection to the Romans on Italian soil. Spartacus was a Thracian place that, although not then a Roman province, was mandatory enlistment in auxiliary detachments natural. After fleeing was captured and he was punished being sold as a gladiator school in Capua.
In the schools of gladiators, men of different nationalities lived (Gauls, Thracians, Germans) with special physical characteristics and prepared to fight. Spartacus got 70 gladiators accompany him in his escape. In flight they took a caravan loaded with arms that took the gladiator school in Capua. They settled in the mountains of Vesuvius, established camps and small raids conducted in nearby locations taking materials to manufacture more weapons, they created a small army with runaway slaves and pawns of the next