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Pax Romana (168)
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31 BC - 180 AD The imperial regime brought peace to the Mediterranean world for more than two centuries. Historians call this era the Roman Peace.
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Role of Octavian Augustus 27 BC - 14 AD (167-171)
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This man wrenched the State from the spiral of civil war and claimed that he restored normal life to the republic. In fact, Octavian destroyed the Republic while pretending to rebuilding it. In his own eyes, and those of a people weary of war, Octavian was the savior of republican Rome. He created a Roman version if a Hellenistic monarchy. Octavian-Caesar-Augustus-Imperator-Princeps-Pontifex Maximus
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Princeps (170)
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First Citizen
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Augustus (170)
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"the revered" and implied an exalted, godlike authority.
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Pontifex Maximus (172)
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Highest Priest, the emperor supervised the public worship of the gods of Rome, particularly Jupiter.
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Auxillary Troops (176)
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Soldiers drawn from subject peoples who were not citizens served as these troops. After completing their years of service, they received Roman citizenship-an important incentive for recruitment. The combined legions and auxiliaries brought the military strength of the Roman army to 300,000 men.
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Romanization (177)
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The process of educating subject peoples in Roman culture and political practices. Provincial recruits learned Roman ways during their service. Latin, the language of command and army administration, provided another common bond to men whose mother tongues reflected the empire's ethnic diversity.
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Germans (185)
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The peoples living north of the Rhine and Danube Rivers, not the Parthians, posed the greatest threat to Rome. Called "Germans" by the Romans, these peoples never used that term or thought of themselves as one group. Numbering in millions, most of them spoke their own dialects and did not understand the language of other tribes. led by aristocratic warriors, they often fought among themselves.
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Slaves as 35-40% of Population (189)
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These millions of slaves held the lowest status in a society in which social and legal status meant everything. Ancient slavery was not based on race or skin color. Most slaves had been captured in war. Others, born of a slave mother, were enslaved from birth.
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Map on Pg. 170, Rome at its greatest extent under the Emperor Trajan 117 AD: Rhine River, Danube River, Carthage, Gaul, Spain, Egypt, Macedonia, Greece
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