200 Fun Facts About Ancient Rome For Kids: Gladiators, Bad Emperors, and the Civilisation That Accidentally Invented Everything We Use Today! (200 Fun Facts about History's Greatest Moments)
Language: English
Published by Jonah Mullen, 2026
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- Title
- 200 Fun Facts About Ancient Rome For Kids: Gladiators, Bad Emperors, and the Civilisation That Accidentally Invented Everything We Use Today! (200 Fun Facts about History's Greatest Moments)
- Author
- Mullen, Jonah
- Publisher
- Jonah Mullen
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798182927093
An emperor once declared war on the ocean. Another appointed his horse to public office. And both of them were considered normal by Roman standards.
Most history books bury the good stuff under dates and treaties.
You get the dull version - kings, battles, repeat.
The weird, the gross, and the genuinely mind-blowing never make the chapter test.
So you close the book, and Rome stays a dusty mystery.
200 Fun Facts About Ancient Rome For Kids by Jonah Mullen rips out the boring parts and goes straight to the chaos. Sixteen chapters cover gladiators, insane emperors, volcanic disasters, and the engineering tricks that still run your daily life, written the way a great story is told, not the way a textbook is assembled.
Inside, you'll discover:
✔ The real reason gladiators were closer to celebrities than soldiers and why fans collected their sweat as medicine
✔ Which emperor tore down a rival's private lake and built the Colosseum on top of it
✔ Why the city of Pompeii became the world's most detailed time capsule overnight
✔ The Roman invention you used before you finished breakfast this morning
✔ What a typical school day looked like for a Roman kid - and why you'd last about ten minutes
✔ The exact moment historians pinpoint as the beginning of the end for the greatest empire ever built
This book is for kids who ask "but why" until the adults run out of answers, and for parents who want history to actually stick.
It is not for anyone looking for another timeline poster or a list of Roman numerals to memorize.
Every fact in here happened.
Grab your copy now and find out how much of your world the Romans built without telling you.
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