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Here's a brief snippet of each of the videos part of our How they Did It series:

Training a Gladiator- Life in the Ludus: Life in the ludus was as ordered as possible, in line with all the Roman sensibilities of the idea. From the moment a new recruit was bought by the lanista - the owner of the school - their new life would begin. Their rights, depending on what brought them to the school, were instantly changed to those within a gladiator school. It didn’t matter who they had been outside the school: slave or citizen, all people started on equal footing. We’ll focus on the experience of a newly bought slave or a citizen.

Aftermath of Pompeii: The eruption of Mount Vesuvius. We're going to take it from a different angle, though - you've all heard of how the volcano erupted and buried several towns and their populations. But how did Rome react? How did the empire recover, and what did the government provide for the disaster-stricken area?

How did the Romans deal with Inflation? In this video we cover the beginnings of Roman currency (as late as the 4th century BCE), how the Romans dealt with inflation from the Punic Wars, the introduction of the denarius, and the reforms undertaken by Aurelian and Diocletian in the later third century.

World Shaking- Earthquakes, Rome's Most Common Natural Disaster: One consequence of being a continent-spanning empire is that Mother Nature will show all of her many faces. The Romans dealt with disasters as a matter of course: what happened, happened, and they dealt with things as they came. Today we're focusing on earthquakes, which were easily the most common of these natural disasters, and what the Romans thought of them.