🏛️ History · Ancient Greece & Rome
Gladiators & Pompeii
Know that Romans watched gladiators fight in huge arenas like the Colosseum in Rome, that gladiators were usually enslaved people or prisoners trained to fight, and that the city of Pompeii was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, preserving an extraordinary snapshot of Roman daily life
Typical age: 7–9 years
“Could your child tell you what gladiators were, describe the Colosseum, and explain what happened to the city of Pompeii?”
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