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People who became gladiators were usually slaves, prisoners, or former slaves, but some of them were volunteers that wanted to be gladiators, but that was very uncommon. Forced or not they would compete in a life or death game to appease the rulers by fighting to the death. The gladiator games usually occurred during a king's birthday or maybe to celebrate a victory.

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Many gladiators took different ways of fighting and were trained every day kind of like the athletes we have now in our time. They would train almost every part of their body to prepare for the games. And after all that training you would be greeted by a nice cold sleep in a prison cell. Yes even free men had to sleep in a cell even if they participated.

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The weapons of the gladiators were of variety for sure. It mostly consisted of short swords, spears, daggers, claymores and so on. The gladiators were not really allowed to pick their chosen weapon but they were taught how to fight with the weapons. Along with the weapons they were also given armor for battle. The armor was either a really heavy class or a fast moving class. There were tons of combinations and all of them gave different speed, protection, and looks but they were also taught on how to use their armor to their advantage. Like if you were using a heavy sword you would use heavy armor and the same with light weapons like daggers and shortswords.

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In battle as a gladiator is pretty terrifying, as you walk in the hot sun blazing down on your very skin with the dry sand feeling on your feet, the amount of people watching, cheering, and celebrating.... it really weighs down a person. But enough with that there is a guy with a sword and he wants blood. The gladiators would fight, fight, and fight until a whole tiger appears, but that rarely happens anyway. After you would tire or injure the person enough that they would fall to the floor it was the spectators decision if they wanted the gladiator to die by either chanting or giving a hand symbol. Yes, some gladiator fights weren't always to the death. Lets say you chopped the poor man's head off thanks to the spectators and now you're a free citizen yay! Or  you chose to come back to the arena to fight some more which some did.

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Lets say you didn't win and the crowd votes for you to die, game over huh? Well it isn't so bad for your dead body because most gladiators formed a trade union which would portray as some sort of brotherhood or protectors that when a gladiator is wounded or dead they would give him a proper funeral and burial and will ensure that your grave will have all the achievements and cool things you achieved in the arena which is nice.

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Cool video about water battles which I didn't go over, make sure to check out.

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Naval Gladiator Battles - What Were they Like? DOCUMENTARY