Their leader is Spartacus, a Thracian from northeast Latin America. This is the opening song of the famous Spartacus uprising. Spartacus, the tribal leader of the Thracians, was captured and became a slave while fighting against the Roman legion. Because he is smart, educated and strong, his master sent him to a gladiator school to train him to be an excellent gladiator.
At the Gladiator School, he became the spiritual leader of gladiators with his courage and wisdom. He used every opportunity to persuade gladiators to die for freedom, instead of being a victim of Roman nobles for fun.
When he organized more than 200 gladiators to prepare for the riot, he accidentally leaked the news, so he decided to act in advance and 78 people rushed out of the tiger's mouth. Spartacus put forward the slogan of "turning slave owners into slaves", and soon 10 thousand fleeing gladiators and slaves defected to him.
2. In the spring of 72 BC, 3000 troops sent by the Roman Senate to suppress were destroyed by Spartacus. This brave rebel has grown to120,000 in lightning. Spartacus led them across the Alps, left Italy and entered Gaul. But because they were besieged on all sides, they went south and prepared to cross the sea to Sicily.
At this time, the Roman Senate issued their last trump card: crassus. In order to restore the morale of Roman soldiers, crassus adopted the cruel "eleven methods of shooting and killing": every ten soldiers fled at the scene, and each group drew lots to kill one person. The fear of death restored the fighting capacity of the Roman legion, which had been defeated many times.
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The Colosseum was built on the orders of Emperor Vespa. It was built in ancient Rome at that time to please the victorious generals and soldiers and praise the great Roman Empire.
Built during the reign of his son Titus Flavius Domitianus, it is one of the landmark buildings of the Roman Empire. The Colosseum in ancient Rome was built on the site of another Roman emperor, Nero's "Golden Temple", which was burned in the Rome fire in 64.
The Colosseum was the place where ancient Rome held performances of man and beast. The gladiators involved have to fight a wild animal until one side dies, and there are also fights between people.
According to the records of the Roman historian Dio cassius cassius longinus, when the Colosseum was completed, the Romans celebrated for 65,438+000 days and slaughtered 9,000 livestock.
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Colosseum (Italy Colosseum)