To pacify them. The roman mob (free roman citizens) were a force that no roman emperor dared take on. Not only were there comabts and races but tokens and food was handed out to the crowd, a kind of gory social security. Modern day soccer is promoted in much the same fashion as an opiate of the masses.
Trajan acutally began his rule as the Roman empire in a.d. 98-117 a.d. He died in 117 a.d his last year of rule. Trajan is also know as the kind-hearted soldier.
The Colosseum in Rome was started around A.D. 75 and completed in A.D 80. It is a huge structure capable of holding around 50,000 people and it was originally called the Flavium Amphitheatre, the name colosseum was given to it in the 8th century.
The Roman republic began in 510 BC and ended in 31 BC. These are the official dates. The beginning of the republic presents little in the way of a problem, but the ending actually began with the several dictatorships of Julius Caesar and culminated with Octavian's victory at Actium, a span of about 15 years.
Horace was a lyric poet and satirist.
The Roman Empire.
The Roman empire.
Monarchy
He is Jewish. At the time he lived, he was a citizen of the Roman Empire.
Monarcy
You need to specify which kind of bodies you are referring to.
He wanted to create a new Roman Empire.
no they werent. they beat everyone who lived in rome with whips.
togas. robe kind of things wraped around
They were defeated armies drafted as slaves to the Roman Empire.
Any kind they could get their bloody little hands on. In Roman times, there was no popular sense of species fragility: creatures were just there until they weren't. There were subspecies of African megafauna that went extinct as a result of Romans supplying them to the blood sports in their arenas.
There is no set date (at least I have never found one) for the fall of the Western Roman Empire. It just kind of disintegrated over such along period (3rd to the 5th century AD). The date for the Eastern Roman Empire on the other hand is 1453, when the Ottoman Turks captured Constantinople