To please the public. Gladiator games that Romans found very interesting were fought in it and other theaters. It kept public order and made the people happy. it was built by emperor Vespasian in 69ad and payed for it by using treasure his son Titus took from the second temple of Jerusalem in Judea after a failed revolt there. The Colosseum (or Flavian amphitheatre the Romans called after the Flavian dynasty which Vespasian and Titus belonged to) was completed by Titus in 80 a year after Vespasian’s died. Titus brother and successor and
Domitian added to the finished structure. Unknown to the Romans, two things they invented while building would become important building materiel that was concrete and the red brick.
Domitian added to the finished structure. Unknown to the Romans, two things they invented while building would become important building materiel that was concrete and the red brick.
