The Roman 'Pax Romana' (Romans, empire, Spanish, unemployment)

[skytrekker]

Augustus Caesar who was Romes first 'Citizen' 27bce-14AD was such a strong leader of the Empire- that his contributions lasted to about 180AD-

the Pax Romona- lasting from Augustus's reign- and made stronger by the '5 Good Emperors' from 97-180 (Nerva; Trajan;Hadrian; Antonius Pius and lastly Marcus Aurelius, was the Golden Age- which began to decline stating with the reign of Commodous (180-192)

The decline worsened in the second century---- comments?

[tkdmom]

I just bought a couple book's called "Old World History & Geography, and "Story Of The World", for my son who is homeschooled. He learned about Octavian or Augustus Caesar and the Pax Romana which translates to Roman Peace. From what we read, sounds like he did a lot of good during his reign, which carried on after his death. His rule brought peace and prosperity to the roman empire.
That's as far as we got.

[Six Foot Three]

Out of almost 200 emperors from Augustus in 31 B.C. to Romulus in 476 ruling the empire proper and also including the western empire i believe the very first one Augustus was the best.

But i think over the decades and centuries too many invasions by the Barbarians eventually just plain wore out the empire from it's early foundings and also they changed the empire culturely and with new customs and languages etc...where it was vastly different from it's beginings.

Latin wasn't even pure towards the end as it was an ''Vulgar Latin'' in the west and Greek or ''Vulgar Greek'' in the east.

[cpg35223]

Well, the Augustan period came to an end chiefly because of its corruption. However, another important reason is that the Roman Empire refused to innovate. It's an intriguing scenario because emperors such as Vespasian and the like outlawed what were evidently labor-saving devices due to the worries about the unemployment such machines would cause.

What would have happened if Roman science and inventiveness been allowed to flourish? Do you think the barbarian hordes would have been vanquished due to superior technical knowledge on the part of the Romans (Remember, the Romans were too hidebound to even adopt the stirrup for their cavalry, ceding an important technical advantage to the German tribes).

[skytrekker]

The Romans in fact where a very eclectic people. They where in fact a hodgepodge of every ethnic and racial group of their far flung empire. Trajan and Hadrian where Spanish, while Marcus Aurelius was probably Celtic-plus there where German, Croatian and Arabic emperors in the 2nd and third centuries.