The History Of The Peace In Rome, The Pax Romana

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Term Paper Title	The History Of The Peace In Rome, The Pax Romana
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The History of the Peace in Rome, The Pax Romana
     The Pax Romana era has ended.  This time of peace started in the year 27 BC and lasted up till now, 180.  This period of time was started by Augustus Caesar.  Augustus created a system of government in which he encouraged trade and glorified Rome by a splendid building program.
He created denarius, a silver coin that we used which made trade between different parts of the empire much easier.  Trade became faster when Augustus eliminated all taxed goods which created the Roman lands to form into one large economic empire.  He also created faster transportation between cities by beginning a program of highway construction.  Our emperors that served after him continued his work and by 100 AD there were 50,000 miles of major roads and more than 200,000 miles of secondary roads connecting each of the cities in the empire.
Augustus turned our city of Rome from a city of brick into a city of marble as he liked to say.  A building material was discovered and was used to make roads and bridges.  This building substance was concrete.  We figured out that if we mixed lime mortar, pour it into a wooden mold, and then wait for it to dry then we would have a substance that was as hard as stone.  This was a new age for us because the concrete formed the backbone of Rome’s bold architecture.  This material was then covered with a costly material, usually marble, to look more decorative.  This was used around the city and people claimed that it looked as if it were the world capital, for which of course we are.
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