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Like sporting events in many ancient cultures, Roman gladiatorial combat originated as a religious event. The Romans claimed that their tradition of gladiatorial games was adopted from the Etruscans, but there is little evidence to support this. The Greeks, in Homer's Iliad, held funeral games in honor of the fallen Patroklos. The games ended not in the literal death of the participants, but in their symbolic death as defeated athletes, unlike succeeding Roman gladiatorial combat.

hrought the middle ages basic military strategies remained pretty much the same, and were as follows: Avoid large-scale battles, stick to seiges and skirmishes, tire out the enemy

The Romans were always very well organized when heading into battle and as a result of this, they rarely ever lost