I wonder what the first sporting event with stadium seating was.
Also, what was the first use of that kind of seating? Were people sitting to watch sports? A concert? A play? Politics of some kind? The past is so bloodthirsty I wouldn’t be surprised if it was for an execution. But, if so, that must have meant that the second event with that kind of seating would have had one hell of a sales pitch. “Come see Anki and Adad in concert singing their ballads of love! At dusk on this day of the sun at the slaughter grounds!”
The first seated events would probably have been people speaking to larger groups in amphitheaters that naturally formed by rock formations. You can often find natural amphitheaters as features of parks with cliffs, and people were probably inherently drawn to those kinds of spaces
Would people show up just to hear a guy speak though? Maybe the first things in those amphitheatres was a sport, or singing. Another likely possibility is something religious. If one of the gods wants you to show up to witness something, you better do it or else the next drought is on you.
I wonder what the first sporting event with stadium seating was.
Also, what was the first use of that kind of seating? Were people sitting to watch sports? A concert? A play? Politics of some kind? The past is so bloodthirsty I wouldn’t be surprised if it was for an execution. But, if so, that must have meant that the second event with that kind of seating would have had one hell of a sales pitch. “Come see Anki and Adad in concert singing their ballads of love! At dusk on this day of the sun at the slaughter grounds!”
The first seated events would probably have been people speaking to larger groups in amphitheaters that naturally formed by rock formations. You can often find natural amphitheaters as features of parks with cliffs, and people were probably inherently drawn to those kinds of spaces
Would people show up just to hear a guy speak though? Maybe the first things in those amphitheatres was a sport, or singing. Another likely possibility is something religious. If one of the gods wants you to show up to witness something, you better do it or else the next drought is on you.
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There was fuck all else to do I guess