The Ancient Rome had a lot of Amphitheatres where the blood painted the sand and the people enjoyed. The first was the Amphitheater of Pompeii, built in the 80 B.C. Before this buildings, the gladiator's fights were made in the Circus Maximus or in the Forum.
The Coliseum, have this name because is built near a colossal statue of Neron, but at the beginning the name was Amphiteatrum Flavium, because their builders were the Flavio's family.The construccion started in the 70 a.C by Vespasiano and finished in the 80 a.C by his son, Tito.
In the Coliseum, you could see gladiator's fighs (ludi gladiatorum), animal's fight's (venationes), executions (fabulae mithologicae) and naval battles (naumachiae). The public was divided in three sectors, in the top was sitting the low class people, in the middle, the normal people, and near the sand, the important people. The emperor was sitting in a different part, near the sand.
The Coliseum was used until the end of the empire. After natural disasters, like lightnings and earthquakes, the amphitheatrum Flavium has been destroyed, and now we have only a part of the great building.
