The Slave Who Made Rome Afraid

[00:00:00]They sold him like an animal. They chained him. They forced him into the arena and every day he had to kill while the crowd screamed for entertainment.

[00:00:07][music] His name was Spartacus. He was not a king, not a prince, not a born hero. He was a slave. But one day inside a gladiator school in Capua, something happened that Rome never expected.

[00:00:19]Spartacus and a small group of gladiators broke free. They had almost no weapons, no real army, no kingdom behind them. Only one desire, to never again live and die for the amusement of rich Romans. At first Rome laughed. What could a group of escaped slaves possibly do against the greatest power in the world? But soon the laughter stopped.

[00:00:39]Thousands began [music] to join Spartacus. Slaves, poor men, runaways, people who had nothing left to lose. A small escape turned into a rebellion and that rebellion became a war.

[00:00:50]Spartacus defeated [music] Roman forces again and again. The empire that had crushed entire nations suddenly faced a man who feared nothing because Rome could take [music] his life, but it could no longer take his freedom. Then Rome sent a massive army to destroy him.

[00:01:03]The final battle was brutal and according to legend, Spartacus fought until the very end. He never became a king, he never built an empire, but he did something Rome could never forget. A slave made the Roman Empire afraid and 2,000 years later his name [music] still means freedom.