Let the slaves fight with lions, tigers, or even ferocious dogs… you will have to shiver with these deadly pastimes!
Gladiator fights with lions.
This was a very popular pastime during the Roman period. You’ve probably seen it in similar scenes before!
The extremely violent and brutal game was held on a very large scale in the Colosseum with a crowded audience despite the scenes of blood and death. They cheered, excited by the bloodshed of “players”.
Beasts versus humans are always enjoyed by viewers.
This game is considered the most brutal pastime in history and spans hundreds of years. Players are called gladiators ( gladiators ), they come from slaves, prisoners of war, criminals … and are forced to participate in this death game.
The battle between man and tiger.
The most frightening is the form of competition between gladiators with wild animals (lions, tigers, …). They are only equipped with simple weapons and have to fight for survival or death in this environment.
Humans and animals fight for survival.
A really scary fight for survival is considered the ultimate fun (like football now)!
Although it is a pastime, its price is extremely expensive, in exchange for the player’s life. In a war there can only be one winner, so they have to fight to the death.
Someone always has to die.
The reward for the winner is just a little gold and silver, but they will have to rush into another game and at some point will become the loser again.
A barbaric game entertaining the emperors and aristocrats makes us feel goosebumps.
The Vikings are the most fierce and warlike people in the world.
This is a game of the Vikings, who are famous for the most brutality in history. Hence their pastime was equally gruesome.
Viking gladiators.
This game is similar to the rules of cricket today, only the loser will have his life taken by the winner.
This game is extremely dangerous and the loser will lose his life.
There is a story about two warriors Egil and Thord when fighting with Skallagrim for 1 day and exhausted, they were killed shortly after.
A ball game.
The Aztec civilization has always hidden mysteries to this day, this culture also has an extremely scary game devised by the Aztecs: Ullamaliztli.
The player tries to get the ball to the finish line.
This game is similar to basketball, or football today, each team (2 to 5 people) has to put a ball through a fixed circle.
They use their hips and elbows instead of their legs and arms.
Due to the simple rules of the game, players are often ‘comfortable’ using their way as long as they bring the ball to the destination. So sometimes its price is the player’s life.
An Aztec soccer field.
It is also used for players to bet their lives (to find the losing team to… sacrifice). This sport was widely popular in the Americas at that time. A lot of tribes or even Mayans are interested in it.
Risky game in the Middle Ages.
This game is very similar to some games today where 2 teams will try to win a ball, but because there are no clear rules about the number of teams and the rules of the game, it often leads to a fight so violent that there can cause death.
The goal is still up to 3.2 km away, so players have to be extremely difficult to bring the ball to the finish line, unfortunate accidents often happen when they step on and steal the ball.
The Middle Ages was a “dark” period of human history. Life is like hell these days.
Quite a dangerous and violent sport, isn’t it?
In addition, this period also considered torturing people as a hobby of crazy aristocrats. They devised the most barbaric and terrible forms of torture and entertained the suffering of others!
Forms of torture such as dropping the victim into the Moray eel pond, spawning it and eating meat were also considered elegant pleasures at that time!
In the 6th century BC, the Greek tyrant Phalaris used to shoot nine prisoners in Brazen Bull. Brazen Bull is a bronze bull, with side or back doors designed by Perillos in Athens
The victim’s pitiful scream would sound like a bull’s roar and amuse the nobles.
A form of torture for fearsome pleasure.
The victim will be put into the belly of the cow and grilled inside, and with a special design, the prisoners’ painful screams will resemble the roar of a cow.
The Mongols used games as a way to practice their fighting skills and solidarity.
It’s scary when a sport uses… the head of a person to make a ball, Unlike today’s Polo and some other places (using a ball or a goat’s head to make a ball), this game has become a pastime of Hmong soldiers. Ancient under Genghis Khan.
This game was very popular in Genghis Khan’s time and in a scarier form than many other places.
They made it scary when they cut off the prisoners’ heads as… shadows! The barbaric game does not stop there, if during play the “skull” ball is broken. A new “ball” will have to be replaced.
The Mongols were the most elite and belligerent army at that time.
This is considered a favorite pastime of the Mongol soldiers, helping them practice their fighting skills and assert themselves.
A barracks of Mongol soldiers.
The game looks like a tug of war. However, instead of the player using a rope, they use animal skins. And the players are pirates.
The players of this game are pirates.
Pirates are always associated with scenes of murder, house burning and rape. So the skin pulling took place next to the blazing forest fire that the pirates burned the village they had just plundered. The winner had the right to rob and rape the women of the village, while the losers were thrown into the fire that burned the village.
Although the ancient Greeks always claimed that they were the creators of the brilliant Western civilization, they also created the “brutal” sport known as Pankration. This sport is quite similar to MMA (Mixed Martial Arts is a comprehensive combat sport, allowing the use of all moves from different martial arts, as long as defeating the opponent).
This martial art has almost no rules, except not to bite each other and gouge out the opponent’s eyes.
However, Pankration martial arts has almost no rules, except not to bite each other and gouge the opponent’s eyes, no rounds, no time to rest in the match and can only beat the opponent to death. If the opponent you are playing with accidentally dies during the match then you are disqualified and the dead person will be declared the winner.
Moreover, in accordance with the martial spirit of the ancient Greeks, the participants must be in a state of “nude”. That is why it leads to deadly fatal blows.
Two teams of boys will row out to the Nile and use oars to beat the “garbage” along the way like Roman gladiators. If they die it means they lose.
This sport shed a lot of blood because they also met both hippos and crocodiles.
Of course, there are many dangers lurking for boys on the road like hippos who can only use wooden oars. The sport shed a lot of blood because they also met crocodiles. However, crocodiles were sacred animals in ancient Egypt, so they only had to dedicate themselves to crocodiles to eat meat. Because, if they fight the crocodile with oars, they will receive the punishment of batons to death. If they want to live, the boys can only escape by swimming shamelessly to shore. The prize for the winning team was the service of many women dressed in the latest outfits, including transparent ones.
Battles are recreated from famous naval battles in history.
The Romans called this game naumachia (translated as naval warfare) because the game took place in an amphitheater with water and real warships. Battles are recreated from famous naval battles in history. The number of participants can be up to thousands of people like a real battle.
Unlike the battlefield, the game has nothing to soak up the blood flowing on the ship’s compartments. So the blood kept pouring out of the ships. Viewers watched as the “players” slipped and fell on their blood. It’s not easy to find a few thousand people willing to play such a violent game. So the majority of the participants were slaves who died for human amusement.