
Events 200s – Rome bans female gladiators
Rome bans female gladiators World Human population reaches about 257 million. Roman Empire Emperor Septimius Severus visits the provinces of Syria, Palestine, and Arabia. The province of Numidia is taken from the African proconsul, and made an Imperial province. Rome is a city of about 1.5 million citizens, its people housed mostly in 46,600 insulae or apartment blocks, each three to eight stories high, flimsily made of wood, brick or rubble. Some 400,000 slaves perform the menial work of Rome, with middle-class citizens often owning eight; the rich from 500 to 1,000; an emperor as many as 20,000. Free urban workers enjoy 17 to 18 hours of leisure each day, with free admission to baths, sport events and gladiatorial games. An edict bans conversions to Christianity and all […]