Amen, always nice to see another lover of roman history. People call Caesar and Augustus tyrants but they forget that they brought upon the best of times for Rome. From Augustus to Marcus Aurelius the empire prospered. And while from Commudus to Alexander Severus things got worse they were still peaceful and ok.
Well, helps when by the time the empire comes around you've subdued (in different extremes) the Gauls, Greeks, Carthaginians, Egyptians, and Parthians. You've also just had 2 civil wars with manpower from surrounding areas like Spain and the rest of Italy.
Things like Pax Romana had less to do with Augustus himself and more to do with the foundation set before him.
The foundation he built upon was terrible. The late republic was unstable as fuck. It’s economy had gone to shit because of the land owners gobbled up the soldiers farms. Germans invaded inflicting several cannae level defeats. Wars with mithridates in the east. And at home the political situation had deteriorated greatly. The first century BC was full of internal wars, from the social war to the final war of the republic. Augustus ended the wars between the Romans and made massive reforms that allowed for Pax Romana.
Amen, always nice to see another lover of roman history. People call Caesar and Augustus tyrants but they forget that they brought upon the best of times for Rome. From Augustus to Marcus Aurelius the empire prospered. And while from Commudus to Alexander Severus things got worse they were still peaceful and ok.
Well, helps when by the time the empire comes around you've subdued (in different extremes) the Gauls, Greeks, Carthaginians, Egyptians, and Parthians. You've also just had 2 civil wars with manpower from surrounding areas like Spain and the rest of Italy.
Things like Pax Romana had less to do with Augustus himself and more to do with the foundation set before him.
The foundation he built upon was terrible. The late republic was unstable as fuck. It’s economy had gone to shit because of the land owners gobbled up the soldiers farms. Germans invaded inflicting several cannae level defeats. Wars with mithridates in the east. And at home the political situation had deteriorated greatly. The first century BC was full of internal wars, from the social war to the final war of the republic. Augustus ended the wars between the Romans and made massive reforms that allowed for Pax Romana.