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The gladitorial contests were performed in an anphitheater or "arena" as the Romans called it. The Colosseum was the main one in Rome. The chariot races were perormed in a "circus" which can loosly be translated as a ring or a lap. Rome had two, the Circus Maximus and the Circus Flaminius.

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