Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Pax Romanian Expansion

Pax Romana Was A Major Time Of Expansion
It was a time of expansion and conquest around the world
The roman expansion started around 400 B.C. We began conquering places like colonies in
the Po-Valley. Italy was under Roman control. We eventually conquered Britannia, Hispania,
Gallia, Achaea, Judea, and North African coastal region.

Public Law In Rome

In Order To Keep Order In Rome
There had to be rules to create peace

One of our most important table of the Twelve 
 Tables is Public Law. This table includes

laws that protect the safety of our citizens.
For example, Law III. When a judge, or 
an arbiter appointed to hear a case, accepts
money, or other gifts, for the purpose of
influencing his decision, he 
shall suffer the penalty of death. this law grants and secures a citizens
right to fair trial

Rome 2.0

Roman Advancements Came In Many Ways
With the wonders of an advancing society, came many innovations in common life.

With the improvements in how people
 lived, there were some key inventions
 that shaped the way how society's quality
 progressed. From paved roads, to aqueducts,
 many improvements came and cemented
 their place in modern communities everywhere.
With the innovation of something as simple 
as paved roads, trading opportunities, military
 movement, and general travel became 
something much easier, with having paths
 that spanned the entire peninsula of Italy. 
The idea of also having running water 
coming from a source where the water
 was always fresh, seemed like a dream 
to us all, but now with aqueducts, those
 dreams are a thing of the past. Stone
 structures called aqueducts carry 
water down from mountains to the
 cities of Italy, bringing water for all 
purposes. Speaking of other purposes
 for water, bath houses are something
 booming all around, allowing people to bathe and clean up. 

The Driving Force Of Rome



Rome wasn't built in a day you know. 
The power it also built up certainly wasn't obtained in a day either.

       Rome wasn't always as powerful as it is in our time of the Pax Romana. Sure, it was powerful for quite the time, reaching over from the deserts of Africa, to the deserts of the Middle East, and much of the land in between. Now however, the Roman empire has never been better, with its many innovations (such as aqueducts, paved roads, and many more!)
This is thanks to efforts of many, this was achie
ved, but without the ringleader of it all, Augustus,
 the Rome we know today may have never been!
 When his uncle Caesar was murdered he
 really took the reins of the empire and put his power
 to full effect. Conquering more territories
 in Africa and surrounding nations, he really
 demonstrated a commanding hand, that 
knew what it was doing. He lead Rome into 
the time of Pax Romana (meaning roman peace),
 which was a time of the highest amounts
 of prosperity in the empire of Rome