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Gladiators would have only fitted in the colonial and Pre-Civil War South. In the modern era, they would not fit at all.
This is because gladiators were slaves, who fought battles, often to the dead, against other gladiators, other soldiers, and even wild animals, for the amusement of the Roman Society.
After the Civil War, Gladiators simply do not fit into the culture of the United States and its democratic setting, and the reason is that slavery is prohibited in the United States.
the Union of South Africa was created as a self-governing dominion of the British Empire on 31 May 1910 in terms of the South Africa Act 1909, which amalgamated the four previously separate British colonies
Eight years after the end of the Second Boer War and after four years of negotiation, an act of the British Parliament (South Africa Act 1909) granted nominal independence, while creating the Union of South Africa on 31 May 1910