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any one!?!?!??
does anyone have a clue what the heckk a Roman mock sea battle is???
I already googled it and everything but couldn't find what it actually IS.
anyone know??....anyone
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Roman Mock Sea Battles (or Naumachia), were one of the most spectacular forms of combat. They would flood the arena, or move the show to a lake.
The first man to hold a naumachia appears to have been Julius Caesar, who had an artificial lake created so that he could have two fleets fight each other in a naval battle. For this 10,000 oarsmen and 1,000 marines were used as part of the show, which re-enacted a battle between Phoenician and Egyptian fleets.
The famous Battle of Salamis in 480BC, between the Athenian and the Persian fleets was very popular and was recreated several times in the first century AD.
The greatest naumachia event ever held was in AD 52 to celebrate the completion of a tunnel which carried water from Lake Fucine to the river Liris, and took 11 years to build. 19,000 fighters met on two fleets of galleys on Lake Fucine. The battle was not fought to the annihilation of one side, although considerable losses occurred on both. The emperor judged both sides to have fought bravely and so the battle could come to an end.
Hope this answers your question.
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Are you sure that you googled it?
Because I found tons of websites.
The first five websites have some good information on them.
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I googled it as well. Here's one passage I found about it.
"Perhaps the most interesting of all events held was the mock sea battles. The Romans were famous for running water in their architecture, and this allowed them to flood the battle field and hold mock sea battles."
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For more information I'd recommend trying google again. I searched Roman mock sea battle and it brought up many links.
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Google is only your friend if you read the websites it gives you or, at the very least, read the summary text it provides!!
I Googled "Roman mock sea battle" and the top result was [Link](Mouse over link to see full location) which says: "The events staged at the Colosseum were many. Nearly all of them involved death and destruction. There were the well known gladiator fights and the feeding of Christians to lions. There were also a number of lesser known events such as mock sea battles involving ships, animal circus acts, animals fighting animals and animal hunts."
So now I know "Roman mock sea battles" took place in the Colosseum and involved ships.
Beyond that I didn't even have to click on any of the links on that first page to learn what "Roman mock sea battles" involved. From the text excerpts Google provided for the content of the linked sites, I learned that the Romans would flood the Colosseum and *stage* battles with ships that sailed on the water filling the arena. I also learned that slaves were often used to enact the battles, and that many drowned in the reenactments because the "mock battles" were apparently pretty realistic and vicious.
This took me a minute and a half.
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