Fun Facts

Ancient Rome was one of the most successful civilization on earth to ever exist. They conquered many lands, created so many things we use till this day. Changed alot of things in a lot of ways. Here are some facts about them.

-The ancient city of Rome is the same as the present one in Italy.

-Slaves in ancient Rome made up to 40% of the population.

-The forum in ancient Rome was a place where people would converse about politics and religion, it was also a focal gathering, meeting point.

-Asparagus was a favorite of the roman people, they kept it frozen in the Alps to keep it fresh.

-Ancient Rome’s Colosseum was the biggest arena of all time, it could seat more than 200,000 people.

-Gladiators in ancient Rome would fight till death and if the Emperor wasn’t impressed with the winner he would point his thumb down, which would prompt the release of hungry lions on him.

-The Greeks got their best general Pyrrhus to fight the romans, he was a master tactician, he defeated the Roman twice but his army ran out and Rome conquered all the lands.

-In Ancient Rome, Boys went to school and girls stayed at home and learned by their mother.

-The city of Rome started of as small town around 700bc.

-Spartacus was slave escapee who led an army of 90,000 men against Rome but was defeated and killed.

-Romans would make their defeated foes civilians but most didn’t like the Romans, because of their superior attitude.

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The word slave comes from the Romans. When they conquered most of Slavonia, the word Slav since then has become synonymous with people who are subjugated with slavery. Slavs were given to Roman warriors as a reward for their on field performance. They were also called addicts, which is a Latin word. Someone who is a slave has not control over what he does, the same is said about addicts when they are controlled by drugs. Your often controlled against your own will, that is why your a slave of your substance. Slaves of other kind can also be called addicts. This might also have influenced the word Slav by which many eastern European nations are called by.

Many other civilizations used slavery without much thought about it. But the Romans were known to be very cruel, that is why they were conquering lands after lands, they would sell the slaves to warriors or roman civilians. The slaves where treated badly. Many knew this before getting caught so lots of defeated Roman foes choose suicide over a life long of slavery.

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Many people will go to a check up with their doctor and come back n’ say “wow my doctor is such quack”. Because he seems incompetent, or just says nonsense. Well basically that’s where the word originated from..nonsense. It comes from the old days, when dubious medicine men traveled from town to town and sold their amazing healing aliments and ointments. The Quack comes from the Quack of a duck which is repeatedly nonsensical just like the dubious medicine man’s words.

Did you know that only the female dabbling duck is the only duck that quack’s and not any other duck of any other family? It was also always thought that a duck’s quack don’t echo but the myth has been since debunked by many sources, universities and even the famous tv show Mythbusters.

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