PAX ROMANA

A time period of 200 Years of Peace and Stability in Rome

The first Emperor of Rome was Augustus

• He started to use the civil service system, centralized government and led Rome to a golden age

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ROMAN REPUBLIC VS. ROMAN EMPIRE

The empire grew rapidly as they started to trade and conquer land

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 Roman Empire begins to practice imperialism  IMPERIALISM – when one country totally dominates another country’s politics, economics, and culture

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 Roman Empire owed much of its success to an advanced system of roads  The roads made it easy to trade and move the armies around

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Rome was influenced by Greeks Like Alexander the Great, Rome spread Greek culture.

Greek Sculpture Roman Sculpture

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 GREEK ARCHITECTURE ROMAN ARCHITECTURE

Aqueducts

 Aqueducts were used to bring water from the mountains into the city

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 The Romans were skilled engineers who built structures like the Pantheon, Coliseum, and Aqueducts.

Pantheon

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Coliseum

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 Romans flourished in literature through the works of Virgil, Livy, and Tacitus

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 Rome’s biggest contribution may have been its legal system  Innocent Until Proven Guilty  Trial by Jury  Basis for Roman Law was Law of the Twelve Tables

TWO TYPES OF ROMAN LAW

CIVIL LAW Applied to Roman Citizens LAW OF NATIONS – applied to conquered people

 Different Perspectives of Pax Romana

“You, Roman, remember-these are your arts: To rule nations, and to impose the ways of peace, To spare the humble and to war down the proud.”

Livy

“ Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. If the enemy be rich, they are rapacious; if he be poor, they lust for dominion; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them. Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace.”Tacitus

CLOSURE

 1. Define the term Pax Romana  2. Explain the term realism when talking about sculpture  3. Explain what kind of things happen during a golden age  4. What was Rome's biggest contribution and why