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Circus Maximus: 

• In the Circus Maximus, attendance was free.  Anyone could attend.
• The Circus Maximus was not the only place to race chariots in the Roman Empire, but it was the biggest and best. 
• The Roman Place to race chariots and horses
• Almost 250,000 people could be seated in the Circus Maximus.

http://www.ancient.eu/Circus_Maximus/

Colosseum:  

• The Coliseum in Rome has over 80 entrances and can accommodate about 50,000 spectators.
• 500,000 people lost their lives and over 1,000,000 animals were killed during the making of the colosseum. 
• was used to events, and was also fed throughout the show
• The Ancient Romans would sometimes flood the Colosseum and have miniature ship naval battles inside as a way of entertainment.

aqueducts: 

• they still stand today, even a thousand days later
• Aqueducts enable many cities in the United States to obtain water from a considerable distance.
• The flow in aqueducts is ordinarily by means of gravity, although pumps are often used.
• The great and highly advanced Roman waterway system known as the Aqueducts, are among the greatest achievements in the ancient world.

Roman Forum:

• one of the most visited sites in the world today
• political, administrative, religious centre of ancient rome
• the roman forum shows remains from several centuries, due to roman practice of building over earlier ruins
• there were actually many forums in ancient rome however the inclusion of the senate house to the site made roman forum the most  important of them all.