Coliseum

The coliseum was huge!!! It is so hard to believe that people from thousands of years ago stood where I stood. In fact not just any people but those in the upper class. The aristocratic class would have been towards the front and the lower classes and women would have been towards the front. Basically, how our seating arrangement is in arenas except you couldn't buy a better seat. Your class determined where you were allowed to sit. Another fun fact, it took about ten years to build it and it is made with cement but not like the cement we know. It took much longer to make and much longer to dry but because of this patient process it also is expected to last much much longer than our cement structures today (their average life expectancy is about 150). One last fact, Gladiators were not killed like you might expect. They took a long time to train them so instead of killing them off in one battle they fought for about ten years. And whenever one would get wounded they would pour vinegar into it to act as an antibacterial. The Romans were genius in many ways. :)