Question

Gladiator games were cheap entertainment, made with no other purpose than to entertain the people of Rome?

Answer 1

Answer:Rome’s ancient blood sports, ways of keeping citizens and communities  

aligned as well as making examples of transgressors through violence and  

entertainment have been filtered throughout 2,000 years into modern sports and  

societal functions. Many fans love hockey and soccer, and the tiny amount of blood  

squandered is enough to get the fans going.  Fans love their teams and are willing to  

bet just about anything on them because they know they’ll win.  Some societies still  

rely on public violence to get their point across and keep order, which can be linked  

to the same way Rome ruled.  In this way entertainment and violence have become  

staples in the inner workings of modern America, Europe, and the Middle East.

Bloodsports its what gets the people going.  In Rome executions and ritual  

killings were a way of keeping the peace and showing the romans who was boss.  

The arena was also used to entertain the lower class citizens of Rome, but at the  

same time uniting them together to uphold societal rules. For those being executed  

the humiliation one would have felt would be horrible, especially because you are  

dying for the entertainment of others.  Flashing forward through time the medieval  

period held executions to keep communities stabilized through fear and humiliation.  

Now a days for the most part society does not kill or execute convicts for the  

enjoyment of citizens or the degradation for those accused. However, there are  

sports today that have similarities between Rome’s ludi’s and munera with some  

spilt blood mixed in such as hockey, soccer, UFC and horse racing.  Although public  

executions are not as common as they were in Rome, the reasons and benefits  

behind them have been a productive part of Middle Eastern and Asian communities.  

Due to ancient Rome’s society based partly off violence and entertainment, they  

become integral parts in the societies of modern America, Europe, and the Middle  

East function.  

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