### q2 the popularity of chariot racing declined > Around a century after the Nika Riots, the sport of chariot racing was in terminal decline. That was anything but inevitable. It had already enjoyed a key cultural role in the ancient world for over a millennium. Its glorious era at Rome’s Circus Maximus was transported to the hippodrome of Constantinople, where it enjoyed several more centuries in the limelight. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fjadaaahc9h740q7e2atsk71) - [[Chariot-Racing Hooliganism The Nika Riots of Constantinople by Antigone#q2 the popularity of chariot racing declined|View in Vault]]