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What else?

• Spartacus had amazing leader skills and knew how to keep track of people and to take the lead as well as have people listen and follow his commands.
• Spartacus was a slave for 13 years.
• Spartacus was only 13 years old when he became a slave.
• He led one the biggest slave rebellions in history.
• Because of the revolt, over 6000 slaves were tortured, but he freed many of them in Central Italy.

Battle Scene

Why did I choose this topic?

The reason that I chose Spartacus was because I've heard and seen a few movies about him and found myself very intrigued to what he did and how well-known he became after his slave revolt. Spartacus opened minds of other slaves and gave them hope. His story shows that you can do anything and overcome anything that tries to get in your way.

What's the big deal anyways?

As dangerous and life threatening as this situation sounds if you were a slave, Spartacus inspired thousands of slaves. He did the impossible and showed slaves that they can do anything. After the first defeat, many others ran away to join him. His army quickly grew. Starting off from 70 people to over 100,000 people! In later years to come, he would be captured in 70 BC and killed. After his death came, many slaves were inspired by him and the great and risky deed that he'd done. In the future, this revolt helped other slaves keep their heads up and have hope.

I'm Spartacus

Spartacus made such a huge impact on all of the Roman slaves. As you can see in this film, when he is threatened, all of the other slaves stand up for him even though their lives are at stake.

SO WHAT MADE HIM SO POPULAR?

As you may be wondering how he got so famous and known, all of his glory came from his slave revolt. In 73 BC, Spartacus had finally had enough and he did just the opposite of what he was supposed to do; he escaped. It was not only he that escaped, about 70 other gladiators went along with him. For protection, the armed themselves with knives from the cook's shop. While escaping, they found a wagon filled with weapons for the gladiators to use while battling, so of course, the men stole all of that gear as well. The crew successfully escaped the gladiator school and camped upon Mount Vesuvius. The Romans were obviously not too thrilled about this and they sent an army of 3000 soldiers to try to catch the runaways. As Spartacus knew it was coming, he thought outside the box and attacked the army from rear, defeating the Romans. Rome was not just going to allow that, resulting in them sending double the amount of men that were sent last time. Six thousand men were sent and yet again Spartacus had won the battle.

Who the heck was Spartacus?!

Spatacus lived from 109 - 71 BC, dying at just 38 years old. He was a free man when he was born.  Spartacus started off as a Thracian soldier. Records tell that he was an amazing military leader and knew what he was doing. He didn't enjoy being a soldier so he ran away. When he was captured by the Romans, he was sold into slavery and forced to train as a gladiator. Although he was forced to be a gladiator, he was extremely successful at what he did. To ensure that he or any other gladiators wouldn't esccape, they were locked up in gladiator school.