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One of the most famous gladiators was [[Spartacus]], not because of his fighting in the arena, but because of the slave revolt he led during the later [[Roman Republic]] that took more than a year to put down.

One of the most famous gladiators was [[Spartacus]], not because of his fighting in the arena, but because of the slave revolt he led during the later [[Roman Republic]] that took more than a year to put down.

Gladiator contests eventually died out after the Empire finally made [[Christianity]] legal and eighty years after that the state religion.

It took over a century, from [[Constantine]] in 325 to [[Valentinian III]] in 438 for the games to be terminated.

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