--- title: Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity», a lesson of the history course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Rome had about a million people, a huge number for the time. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin an… # Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity Lesson 15 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 21 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/0/) — Rome had about a million people, a huge number for the time. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/1/) — Rich Romans lived in houses with gardens and mosaics, while most people squeezed into blocks of flats called insulae, which could collapse or catch fire. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/2/) — The town centre was the forum, where people shopped, did business and listened to speeches. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/3/) — Most people also went to the public baths every day, like a swimming pool, gym and café all in one. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/4/) — For fun, crowds cheered chariot teams at the Circus Maximus, like football fans, and watched gladiators in the Colosseum. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/6/) — Rome left us Latin, the language behind French, Spanish, Italian and about half of English words. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/7/) — The town of Pompeii, buried by a volcano in AD 79, shows Roman life frozen in time. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/8/) — And from Judea, a Roman province, the teaching of Jesus spread along Roman roads. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/9/) — The forum was the centre of a Roman town, with markets, temples, law courts and speeches. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/10/) — Rich Romans lived in houses with gardens and mosaics, but most people lived in crowded blocks of flats called insulae, which could collapse or catch fire. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/11/) — Rome had about a million people, a huge number for the time. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/12/) — Ordinary Romans ate bread, porridge, olives, cheese and vegetables, and rich Romans held feasts lying on couches, with dishes like dormice and fish sauce. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/13/) — Public baths had hot, warm and cold pools, exercise areas and places to chat, and most people went every day; the English city of Bath is named after its Roman baths. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/14/) — Gladiators fought in arenas to entertain crowds; many were slaves or prisoners, some were volunteers, and famous ones were like sports stars. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/15/) — Not every gladiator fight ended in death, and the thumbs-up or thumbs-down sign may be a modern guess. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/16/) — The Colosseum in Rome held about 50,000 people and had a canvas roof for shade and hidden lifts to bring animals up into the arena. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/17/) — The Circus Maximus held perhaps 150,000 fans, who cheered for chariot teams called the Reds, Whites, Greens and Blues. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/18/) — Many people in Rome were enslaved, captured in war or born to slaves, and worked in houses, fields, mines and workshops; some were freed, and Spartacus led a huge slave revolt. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/19/) — Latin was the language of Rome; French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian grew from it, and about half of English words come from Latin, often through French. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/20/) — In AD 79 the volcano Vesuvius buried the town of Pompeii in ash, and it was dug out much later with streets, shops, paintings and even graffiti. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/21/) — Jesus lived in the Roman province of Judea and was crucified by the Romans, and his followers spread his teaching through the empire; Christians were sometimes persecuted, but the faith kept growing. - ← previous: [Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/14-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads/) - next →: [Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/)