Thursday 25 January 2018

Bread and Circuses


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Circus Maximus and the Colosseum were/are in the city of Rome. Here is another entertainment facility, this time located outside the city of Rome. Such entertainment centres were very common and found in many Roman centres.




1.By using Bread and Circuses (Games), how might the ruling class keep the people happy?
2. What often was the cost to attend many of these forms of entertainment?
3. What forms, mention several, did this entertainment come in?
4. The Winnipeg Jets are owned by Mark Chipman, a rich local business man, and by David Thompson, Canada's richest man.  Yet this past year the Jets were subsidized (Free Press, Jan 25) with 13.5 million dollars of public money. Would our public leaders be using the same methods as Roman leaders? Explain.  

9 comments:

  1. 1. Not to make the people uprise and treat them to everything
    2 the coast of them was ether really cheap or free

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  2. 1. Entertaining the people so there wouldn’t be an uprising
    2. They were usually free or at a very low cost
    3. Chariot racing, people fighting animals, plays, gladiator fights

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  3. Hilary Sienna Lexus2:09 pm, January 29, 2018

    2. the etertainment was free
    3.

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  4. 1.
    2. it was free

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  5. Steven, Daylan, Igor10:21 am, January 30, 2018

    1. Entertaining the people so there wouldn’t be an uprising
    2. They were usually free or at a very low cost
    3. Chariot racing, people fighting animals, plays, gladiator fights
    4. yes because the jets is a main attraction for Winnipeg and if the city isn’t supporting that then the city would be upset

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  6. 4) yes because watching the hockey game is an event that happens regularly in Winnipeg. Without the Winnipeg Jets, people here might not be happy and they'll start our version of an uprising.

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  7. Hilary Sienna Lexus10:23 am, January 30, 2018

    1.)
    2.) the entertainment was free
    3.) it came in the colosseum
    4.)

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  8. Damien Jayson Arnold10:25 am, January 30, 2018

    1.By using Bread and Circuses (Games), how might the ruling class keep the people happy?
    The entrainment and the food

    2. What often was the cost to attend many of these forms of entertainment?
    It was more than often free!! Or 1or 2 $

    3. What forms, mention several, did this entertainment come in?
    gladior duels, animal fights dances

    4. The Winnipeg Jets are owned by Mark Chipman, a rich local business man, and by David Thompson, Canada's richest man.  Yet this past year the Jets were subsidized (Free Press, Jan 25) with 13.5 million dollars of public money. Would our public leaders be using the same methods as Roman leaders? Explain.  

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