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The Pax Romana (Latin for "Roman peace") is a roughly 200-year-long period of Roman history which is identified as a golden age of increased and sustained Roman imperialism, relative peace and order, prosperous stability, hegemonic power, and regional expansion.
Under the Pax Romana, the Nabataeans lost their warlike and nomadic habits and became a sober, acquisitive, orderly people, wholly intent on trade and agriculture. The kingdom was a bulwark between Rome and the wild hordes of the desert except in the time of Trajan, who reduced Petra and converted the Nabataean client state into the Roman ...
The word "pax" together with the Latin name of an empire or nation is used to refer to a period of peace or at least stability, enforced by a hegemon, a so-called Pax imperia ("Imperial peace"). The following is a list of periods of regional peace, sorted by alphabetical order.
The pater familias, also written as paterfamilias (pl.: patres familias), [1] was the head of a Roman family. [2] The pater familias was the oldest living male in a household, and could legally exercise autocratic authority over his extended family.
Example of higher class Roman men. Social class in ancient Rome was hierarchical, with multiple and overlapping social hierarchies.An individual's relative position in one might be higher or lower than in another, which complicated the social composition of Rome.
Pax, though usually translated into English as "peace," was a compact, bargain, or agreement. [381] In religious usage, the harmony or accord between the divine and human was the pax deorum or pax divom ("the peace of the gods" or "divine peace"). [382] Pax deorum was only given in return for correct religious practice.
The legislative assemblies of the Roman Republic were political institutions in the ancient Roman Republic.According to the contemporary historian Polybius, it was the people (and thus the assemblies) who had the final say regarding the election of magistrates, the enactment of Roman laws, the carrying out of capital punishment, the declaration of war and peace, and the creation (or ...
Pax Romana, a long period of peace in the early years of the Roman Empire. Debellatio, the peace which follows a war in which one side is annihilated. "Roman Peace" in this usage refers to the end of the Third Punic War, in which Rome wiped out Carthage and allegedly salted the earth to prevent anything from growing there ever again.