The lion in captivity
The lions live in captivity since ancient times, on-off periods. The Romans used them in their games eg. There are lions permanently in the West since the creation of menageries, zoological parks ancestors in the eighteenth century. In America, the first lion was also exhibited in Boston in 1716. In addition, the entertainment, like taming in the circus or even fighting lion, require the establishment of farms. Lions reproduce very well in captivity and can live twenty years, the record is currently held by a lion of Honolulu Zoo born in 1986

History
The Assyrian monarchs stood in the ninth century BC. J.-C. and Alexander the Great, according to legend, lived with tame lions by the Malhi northwest of Inde Later, the Romans kept organizers of games. As well as famous Roman Sulla, Pompey, Julius Caesar, ordered the capture of hundreds of lions to fois Marco Polo reported that the Indian princes continued in taming and even Kublai Khan kept lions inside his habitations

William of Malmesbury reported him as lions were kept in England, in Woodstock by the will of Henry Ier the lion being present on English heraldry