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 | | One of the largest "circus parades" known to man took place in Egypt in the Third Century BC, when Ptolemy II mounted a day-long procession involving hundreds of wagons and chariots, drawn by thousands of animals of every variety. |
| | By the time the great city states of Greece emerged from their own dark ages, in the Eighth Century BC, the circus arts were a well-established part of Greek culture. |
| | New trade routes and a spreading common language insured a co-mingling of many different cultural traditions, and bands of itinerant entertainers, including actors, acrobats, comedians, ropewalkers, and animal trainers freely roamed around the known world, amazing their new spectators with exotic acts derived from a variety of strange traditions. |
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