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Pax Romana

Pax Romana (Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
for "Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
peace

Peace

Peace is a term that most commonly refers to an absence of aggression, violence or hostility, but which also represents a larger concept wherein there are healthy or newly-healed interpersonal relationship or international relations, safety in matters of social or economic welfare, the acknowledgment of equality and fairness in political re...
") was the long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
in the first and second centuries AD. Since it was established by the Caesar Augustus it is sometimes called Pax Augusta.

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Pax Romana (Latin

Latin

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
peace

Peace

Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788....
. Gibbon proposed a period of moderation and peace under Augustus and his successors and argued that generals bent on expansion (e.g. Germanicus

Germanicus

Germanicus Julius Caesar Claudianus . Born in Lugdunum, Gaul , was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of the early Roman Empire. At birth he was named either Nero Claudius Drusus after his father or Tiberius Claudius Nero after his uncle and received the agnomen Germanicus, by which he is principally known, in 9 BC, when...
, Agricola

Gnaeus Julius Agricola

Gnaeus Julius Agricola was a Roman Empire general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Roman Britain. His biography, the Agricola , was the first published work of his son-in-law, the historian Tacitus, and is the source for most of what is known about him....
and Corbulo

Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo

Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo was a Ancient Rome general....
) were checked and recalled by the Emperors during their victories favouring consolidation ahead of further expansion. Gibbon lists the Roman conquest of Britain under Claudius

Claudius

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
and the conquests of Trajan

Trajan

Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus, commonly known as Trajan , was a Roman Emperors who reigned from 98 until his death in 117. Born Marcus Ulpius Traianus into a nonpatrician family in the Hispania Baetica province , Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian, serving as a general in the Roman army along the Limes G...
as exceptions to this policy of moderation and places the end of the period at the death of Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was Roman Emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered one of the most important stoicism philosophy....
in 180 AD, despite the conclusion of peace by the latter's son Commodus

Commodus

Lucius Aurelius Commodus Antoninus , was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 180 to 192 . The name given here was his official name at his accession to sole rule; see 'Commodus#Changes of name' for earlier and later forms....
later in the same year.

Despite the term, the period was not without armed conflict, as Emperors frequently had to quell rebellions. Additionally, both border skirmishes and Roman wars of conquest happened during this period. Trajan embarked on a series of campaigns against the Parthia

Parthia

Parthia is a region of north-eastern Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Arsacid dynasty, after which the Arsacid Empire is then also known as the 'Parthian Empire'....
ns during his reign and Marcus Aurelius spent almost the entire last decade of his rule fighting against the Germanic tribes

Germanic peoples

File:Germanische-ratsversammlung 1-1250x715.jpgThe Germanic peoples are a historical Ethnolinguistics group, originating in Northern Europe and identified by their use of the Indo-European languages Germanic languages which diversified out of Common Germanic in the course of the Pre-Roman Iron Age....
.

Nonetheless, as the interior of the Empire remained largely untouched by warfare, the Pax Romana was an era of relative tranquility in which Rome endured neither major civil wars, such as the perpetual bloodshed of the third century AD, nor serious invasions, or killings, such as those of the Second Punic War

Second Punic War

The Second Punic War lasted from 218 BC to 201 BC and involved combatants in the western and eastern Mediterranean. It was the second of three major wars between Carthage and the Roman Republic....
three centuries prior. During this time, Roman commerce thrived, unhampered by piracy

Piracy

Piracy is a warlike act committed by a foreign nonstate actor, especially robbery or crime committed at sea, on a river, or sometimes on shore, either from a vessel flying no national flag, or one flying a national flag but without authorization from a nation....
or marauding enemy troops.

Given the prominence of the concept of Pax Romana, historians have coined variants of the term to describe systems of relative peace that have been established, attempted or argued to have existed, usually under the hegemony of one power or of an idea. These include Pax Americana

Pax Americana

Pax Americana describes a period of relative peace in the Western world since the end of World War II in 1945, coinciding with the dominant military and economic position of the United States....
, Pax Assyriaca

Pax Assyriaca

Pax Assyriaca, Latin for "the Assyrian peace", was a relatively long period of peace in the Neo-Assyrian Empire during the 7th century . The term was coined in parallel to Pax Romana....
, Pax Britannica

Pax Britannica

Pax Britannica was the List of wars 1800?1899 in Europe when the British Empire controlled most of the key naval trade routes and enjoyed Royal Navy#1500.E2.80.931707....
, Pax Europeana

Pax Europeana

Pax Europaea , is the period of relative peace experienced by Northern and Western Europe in the period following World War II?often associated above all with the creation of the European Union and its predecessors....
, Pax Germanica

Pax Germanica

Pax Germanica, Latin for "Germany peace", described the peace in Germany after its foundation in 1871 by Otto von Bismarck, the Unification of Germany; it coincided with the Pax Britannica....
, Pax Hispanica

Pax Hispanica

The Pax Hispanica refers to a period of twenty-three years coinciding with renewed Spanish ascendancy in Europe , when Habsburg Spain achieved European stability after various conflicts with France, England and the Netherlands Dutch Republic....
, Pax Minoica

Minoan civilization

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age civilization which arose on the island of Crete. The Minoan culture flourished from approximately 27th century BC to 1450 BC; afterwards, Mycenaean Greece culture became dominant at Minoan sites in Crete....
, Pax Mongolica

Pax Mongolica

The Pax Mongolia or "Mongol Peace" is a phrase coined by Western scholars to describe the stabilizing effects of the conquest of the Mongol Empire on the social, cultural and economic life of the inhabitants of the vast Eurasian territory they conquered in the 13th and 14th centuries....
, Pax Ottomana

Pax Ottomana

Pax Ottomana is a term used to describe the economic and social stability attained in the conquered provinces of the Ottoman Empire, which, at the height of the Empire's power during the 16th and 17th centuries, applied to lands in the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle East, North Africa and the Caucasus....
, Pax Sinica

Pax Sinica

Pax Sinica is the time of peace in East Asia, maintained by China hegemony, usually the period of rule by the Han Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, early Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty....
, and Pax Syriana

Pax Syriana

Pax Syriana is a term used in the study of international relations in the Western Asia, usually pertaining to efforts by Syria to influence its neighbors, particularly Lebanon....
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Pax Romana

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