Personally, I think it's because it was simple and free entertainment. Given that there wasn't a taboo around death and watching others die, and it actually being encouraged, like how it was in Anciient Rome, I'd say a lot of people would actually at least try out visiting a gladiatorial contest.
The magna carta. the magna carta limited the power of the king which is basically the executive branch in a monarchy
The United States didn't want to stay behind, so it increased funding for its own space program in order to be more productive and launch more satellites.<span />
The first humans to reach the Americas emigrated across the Bering Straits between Alaska and Siberia during a time when the Ice Age had locked up so much of the world's water that the level of the sea was considerably lower than it is now, and North America and Asia formed a single land mass. No one is quite sure when that was, but it may have been between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago. At any rate, the Sibero-Americans, whom we call "Indians" since the Columbus and his immediate successors thought that they were in India, came to the Western Hemisphere as Palaeolithic hunters and gatherers, just as all other humans were Palaeolithic hunters and gatherers.