What you need to know
about Rome
10 AD
Rome
The Period Of Peace
By: Amanda King
Hello everyone! I will be your
tour guide for today. I will be showing
you and telling you some background
information about the Pax Romana.
Now lets get started!
As of right now Augustus is the
ruler of this time period. As you can
see on your right and left there is a
servian wall and if you look closely
there is a little neighborhood in there.
As time is going on this neighborhood
is really starting to grow and increase
in population. All of these people here
are treated with respect and care,
which is very fair. The Pax Romana is
a time period of peace and happiness.
Pax Romana actually means Roman
peace.
Now looking past the servian
wall, you see the neighborhoods
growing more into cities and towns.
Right now there is about 60 to 80
billion people here and about
3,000,000 square miles of land.
If you look around you see all
different kinds of people trading
different goods with each other nicely;
nobody is fighting or arguing. Since
everyone is very nice to each other
this makes trading so much easier and
so the trading population is
increasing. One of Augustus biggest
accomplishments was building roads,
which also made it a lot easier for
people in all different parts to trade
goods.
About 90% of the population
are farmers, merchants and artisans
so trading a lot is how they make a
living. Even though there was no
social class chart farmers, merchants
and artisans were usually always at
the bottom because they were not as
wealthy as the rulers and emperors.
Of course Augustus was a very
wealthy man who ruled and had a lot
of accomplishments during the time
period of Pax Romana. Eventually, it
had to come to an end because you
cant last with peace for that long. This
lasted from about 27 BC to about 180
AD.
Source: Rome from the Ground Up by
James H.S McGregorHistorical Atlas of
Ancient Rome by Nick Constabl
Questions:
1. What does Pax Romana mean?
2. When did this time period end?