Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . Western Europe before the Barbarian Invasions 9 great Latin and Greek writers, so that an educated man was The samepretty sure to find, even in the outlying parts of the great throughoutEmpire, other educated men with much the same interests and ^^ Romanideas as his own. Everywhere men felt themselves to be not merenatives of this or that country but citizens of the Roman world. Fig. 3. Roman Amphitheater at Pola Every large Roman town had a vast arena, or

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Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . Western Europe before the Barbarian Invasions 9 great Latin and Greek writers, so that an educated man was The samepretty sure to find, even in the outlying parts of the great throughoutEmpire, other educated men with much the same interests and ^^ Romanideas as his own. Everywhere men felt themselves to be not merenatives of this or that country but citizens of the Roman world. Fig. 3. Roman Amphitheater at Pola Every large Roman town had a vast arena, or amphitheater, in whichthousands of spectators could be seated to watch the public fightsbetween professional swordsmen (gladiators) and between men andwild beasts. The emperors and rich men paid the expenses of thesecombats. The greatest of these arenas was the Coliseum at Rome.The one here represented shows that a Roman town of perhaps 40, 000inhabitants was supplied with an amphitheater, holding no less than20, 000 spectators, who must have assembled from all the region around.The seats have disappeared; only the outside walls remai