@[email protected] to Today I LearnedEnglish • 2 years agoTIL that the worst stadium disaster in history was the collapse of a wooden amphitheater in 27 AD that killed 20,000 people.en.m.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1327arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1320arrow-down1external-linkTIL that the worst stadium disaster in history was the collapse of a wooden amphitheater in 27 AD that killed 20,000 people.en.m.wikipedia.org@[email protected] to Today I LearnedEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square14fedilinkfile-text
Just came across a mention of this in the toldinstone video How Dangerous Was the Front Row of the Colosseum?.
minus-square@nxfsilinkEnglish11•edit-22 years ago20k in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ + 27 is probably half the fucking population of the entire city
minus-squareathos77linkfedilink21•2 years agoThe population of Rome the city at the time is estimated at about one million people. So twenty thousand is like 2% - one out of every fifty people in the city died in that stadium.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish19•2 years agoInterestingly, Jesus probably heard about this disaster. Woulda been a current event for him.
20k in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ + 27 is probably half the fucking population of the entire city
The population of Rome the city at the time is estimated at about one million people. So twenty thousand is like 2% - one out of every fifty people in the city died in that stadium.
Interestingly, Jesus probably heard about this disaster. Woulda been a current event for him.
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