Pax Romana (Roman Peace)

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"During this time, the Roman empire reached its peak land mass area and its population grew up to 70 million people. . . . Its span was approximately 206 years (27 BC to AD 180), from the time of Augustus becoming emperor to the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius." [Wikipedia] "If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus" (Gibbon) [Quoted in Beard: SPQR, p. 401] "At the same time, the success of Christianity was rooted in the Roman Empire, in its territorial extent, in the mobility that it promoted, in its towns and its cultural mix. From Pliny’s Bithynia to Perpetua’s Carthage, Christianity spread from its small-scale origins in Judaea largely because of the channels of communication across the Mediterranean world that the Roman Empire had opened up and because of the movement through those channels of people, goods, books and ideas." [Beard: SPQR, p. 520] Between 14 and 192 CE, there were 14 emperors; between 193 and 293 CE there were more than 70. [Beard: SPQR, p. 530]