The Colosseum

Acknowledgements
The author would like to express her special thanks to His Excellency Minister U Thaung, Ministry of Science and Technology for initiating the paper projects in Technological Universities.
The author would like to acknowledge the support and encouragement of Dr. Aung Kyaw Nyein, the principal of Technological University (Sittway). The author also wishes to offer his respectful gratitude to Daw Khin Htar Oo, Associate Professor, the Head of Department, Department of English, T.U (Sittway).
The author would also like to convey his heartfelt thanks to his class teacher Daw Moe Moe Thein, Demonstrator of English Department, T.U (Sittway). The author’s heartfelt thanks extend to Dr. Su Hlaing Myint, Lecturer and Head of Department, Department of Electronic Engineering for her valuable advice and comments.


Introduction
In the first century AD, the Roman Emperor Vespasian decided that Rome needed a stadium that would not only satisfy the crowds, but also convince the magnitude that Rome had become a power to be reckoned with. He wanted them to know that Rome now again had strong and unquestionable power in the world after the strong and bitter civil war it had recently gone through. His idea was to create an amphitheater. This theater, named the Flavian Amphitheater, earned a reputation as the greatest and deadliest structure ever built during the Roman Empire.

The Colosseum
The Roman people found their greatest entertainment at public gladiatorial combats. Up until the late first century BC, these combats were held in the forum, the Circus Maxima, and other small arenas. At each of these sights there were great drawbacks. When the games were held in the forum, the only seats were a limited amount of temporary wooden seating. The Circus Maxima could hold a much greater amount of people then the forum, but the large spina, which stood in the middle of the fighting floor, created a great visual obstacle for all the spectators.   The small...