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The second century AD was the period when the Roman Empire experienced its greatest prosperity. The empire was going through what historians have called the Pax Romana. This was a 207-year period (27 BC-180 AD) of relative plotical stability which followed the Roman Civil Wars with the establishment of absolute rule by an emperor by Augustus. With this the central government gained much better control over the provinces of the empire, whose governors had previously acted independently form the central government in Rome. The stability provided by a stronger government created an opportunity for great economic growth through growth in trade, which became thriving and reached all the four corners of the empire and beyond (Ethiopia, India and China). With this prosperity great public works and engineering works were undertaken and the peoples of the conquered areas became more integrated in the economy of the empire and more exposed to Roman civilisation.

There were some territorial conquests, but also decisions to limit expansion as the empire suffered defeats in Germany, the conquest of Iraq brought risks of costly wars with the Parthian (Persian) Empire, and the empire was getting too big. Military conflicts over imperial succession occurred in the Year of the Four Emperors (69 AD) but they were small scale and did not get near full civil war. There were political conspiracies against emperors, but this did not destabilise the empire. After 180 Ad political instability became a big problem again.

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The Roman Empire in this period attained greatest prosperity through the development of thriving trading networks across the empire and beyond (Arabia, Persia, China, India, the Spice Islands in Indonesia, Ethiopia and along the amber road in Germany and Poland). The empire acted as a common market. The Roman coins provided a common currency and the Romans promoted trade. There were great infrastructural projects aimed at facilitating trade and public health: roads, bridges, ports, aqueducts, sewers, public baths and public toilets.

The Romans held their empire together by tolerating the religions and customs of the conquered peoples. They allowed them to continue to worship their religions, follow their customs and use their customary laws at the local level, which they called mos regionis (regional traditions or law of the land). They also let the local ruling classes run most of the local affairs. The role of the provincial governors of the provinces (conquered territories) was restricted to defence and maintenance of the legions stationed in the provinces, tax collection, public works and the arbitration of disputes the locals could not resolve by themselves. This policy had two advantages: it reduced the administrative load of the provincial governors and it facilitated the integration of the locals into the ideology and the economy of the empire. A less tolerant policy would have led to too many rebellions and would have threatened the stability of the empire.

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Relative stability, security and prosperity.

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