Colosseum interior
The very bottom level, half covered by a wooden deck, is where the Roman would keep the animals. They were in darkness and starved for many days so they would go insane. When it came time for the Gladiators to fight, the animals were hungry and extremely pissed off as well as disoriented from being out of the light for so long. Our tour guide said that when the games were rigged, due to gambling, the animals would be drugged so the Gladiator could kill it with his bare hands by asphyxiation. All this while the animal was asleep and could not put up a fight. How brave were they?
Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more 
