How does it seem the audience justifies people being thrown to the animals in the gladiatorial combat in Ancient Rome. I

The audience justified this because the vast majority of gladiators were slaves, and slaves, in Ancient Roman society, were not considered people worthy of civil, political, or personal rights, they were essentially property.

These slaves were mostly taken from the frontiers of the Roman Empire, where constant warfare generated a steady supply of slaves. The strongest were to become gladiators, while others were to be worked in farms, or in domestic households.

In general terms, Ancient Roman society largely depended on slavery to work property, it was considered to be a slave society.

the correct answer is political prisoners

1. international: struggle for hegemony and empire outstrips the fiscal resources of the state

2. political conflict: conflict between the monarchy and the nobility over the “reform” of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy.

3. the enlightenment: impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism, one variant of which was laid out in montequieu’s spirit of the laws; introduces new notions of good government, the most radical being popular sovereignty, as in rousseau’s social contract [1762]; the attack on the regime and privileged class by the literary underground of “grub street; ” the broadening influence of public opinion.

4. social antagonisms between two rising groups: the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie

5. ineffective ruler: louis xvi

6. economic hardship, especially the agrarian crisis of 1788-89 generates popular discontent and disorders caused by food shortages.