Roman Gladiators

Rome started in 753 B.C. and ended in 476 A.D. Rome is most likely the reason why the United States is like today. Trade was vital to Rome and the city of Rome itself has tremendous environmental advantages. They had Gladiators, horse racing and theater. Rome’s government was the most helpful.
The Roman’s trade imported a whole variety of materials like beef, corn, glassware, iron, lead, leather, marble, olive oil, perfumes, purple dye, silk, silver, spices, timber, tin, and wine. The main trading partners were in Spain, France, the Middle East and North Africa. They trade with European people. Britain exported lead, woollen products and tin. In return, it imported from Rome wine, olive oil, pottery and papyrus. British traders relied on the Romans to provide security within the Empire. When this collapsed and Europe was seemingly overrun by Barbarians, no one could guarantee traders that their produce would get through.
Rome’s entertainment was gladiators, where men fight to the death, horse racing, which started vehicles to be invented, and theater. Gladiators was the biggest kind of entertainment in Rome with about 5,000 people each time. Horse racing was the start of vehicles racing.
Rome’s government was the most important to the U.S.A. In fact, “the
Also the riverboats going up and down the Tiber, from east to west and back again, could stop at Rome. As the Romans expanded their empire, they encountered many different environments. There were deserts, mountains, wetlands, forests, and everything else. The great variety of environments helped the Romans get lots of different food and materials. They could get tin from England, and wood from Germany, and cotton from Egypt, and silver from Spain. Trade was vital because they didn’t grow a lot of their own