What did the gladiators of Ancient Rome do?
They fought each other and animals in arenas. They often started out as captured warriors from a war and were sold into slavery as gladiators. There were gladiator schools and owner/investors. It was a big business. Sometimes a slave gladiator could gain his freedom by fighting well in the arena. This didn’t happen often, but it did happen. They became famous. One of the biggest schools for gladiator’s was across from the present site of theColosseum . They were so close to it that a tunnel connected the school to the Colosseum.
