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  2. Pax Romana - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of Latin phrases (P) - Wikipedia

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    Adapted from Pax Romana. pax in terra: peace on earth: Used to exemplify the desired state of peace on earth Pax Indica: Indian Peace: Term for hegemony of India in its sphere of influence; adapted from Pax Romana; also a 2012 book by Shashi Tharoor: Pax intrantibus, salus exeuntibus: Peace to those who enter, health to those who depart.

  4. List of periods of regional peace - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. History of the Roman Empire - Wikipedia

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    However, after an assassination attempt involving a conspiracy by certain members of his family, Commodus became paranoid and slipped into insanity. The Pax Romana, or "Roman Peace", ended with the reign of Commodus. One could argue that the assassination attempt began the long decline of the Roman Empire.

  6. Roman peace - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Catholic peace traditions - Wikipedia

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    The Greek word for peace is eirene; Roman pax, and in the Hebrew Bible, shalom. For the earliest Romans, "pax" meant to live in a state of agreement, where discord and war were absent. In his Meditations, or To Himself, the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius expresses peace as a state of unperturbed tranquility. The English word "peace" derives ...

  8. Pax (goddess) - Wikipedia

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    Pax and peace would later become synonymous with Augustus in the period known as Pax Augusta and later scholars would refer to the time of peace as the Pax Romana, meaning that stability and peace was achieved through the power of the emperor to limit infighting within the empire and through defeating foreign threats such as seen as the ...

  9. Glossary of ancient Roman religion - Wikipedia

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    Pax, though usually translated into English as "peace," was a compact, bargain, or agreement. [382] 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"). [383] Pax deorum was only given in return for correct religious practice.