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The Great Roman Empire

Find all the information necessary to understand the great Roman Empire, roman Emperors and roman Wars. You will also learn about the different type of gladiators there were in Rome.

Rome wasn't built in 1 day

It's hard to know exactly when Rome was founded and in which conditions. All we have are legends and some writings.

Some legend says it happened 438 years after the capture of Troy (which happened 1182 BC).

Historians agree that the founding of the city happened April 21st between 758 BC and 728 BC. Why April 21st? Simply because it was the day of the festival sacred to Pales, goddess of shepherds.

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Type of Gladiators

There were two type of gladiators: 1) The condemned criminal, prisoners of war, or slaves; and 2) Professional gladiators who volunteered.

Why would anyone volunteer? Gladiators were stars. If you wanted fame, popularity and partonage of wealthy Roman citizen, all you needed was to be a good gladiator. You could easly raise in your social status.

Slaves and criminal could win freedom if they survived three to five years.

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Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar is definitly the most popular Roman Dictator in our time. Did you know that he was the last dictator of the Roman Republic? He played a major role in the tranformation of the Roman Republic into the great Roman Empire.

Like many other Dictators and roman Emperors, he was assassinated. In his case, he was assassinated by a group of senators that wanted to restore the Roman Republic (which failed).

Two years after his assassination, he was sanctified as one of the Roman deities.

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Roman Wars

Rome wouldn't have expended that much if it wasn't of wars and land conquests.

But roman wars were not always to get new lands. There has been many civil wars.

Roman army were constituted mostly of Legions. At war time, there was over 25 Legions. Each legions consist of more than 5000 legionaries. That's a total of 125000 legionaries!

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