Rome: A Vast & Powerful Empire

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Rome: A Vast & Poweful Empire

Food and Entertainment

Pax Romana brought 200 years of peace and prosperity to Rome. Christianity devolped during this time

Gladiator battles were popular where they fought against animals or other people, mostly to the death

There was a lot of blood!

To entertain people the government provided entertainment like games, races and mock battles

Poor people got daily rations of grain

Some could afford to have day long parties while others had barely the necissities of life.

In the Empire wealth and social class made a huge difference on how you lived.

The Emperors and Succession

After the the last of the good emperers died it marked the end of Pax Romana and the empires decline

The Five Good Emperors chose a well respected by the people and army person to become next emperor.

The Problem was temporaily solved by the Five Good Emperors

Rome had no written law about succession

A Sound Government

When Augustus died his adopted son became his successor

He set up a civil service for the government

Augustus stabilized the Empire and made splendid npublic buildings

Augustus was Rome's Best emperor

An Economy Based On Trade and Agriculture

Most important part was feeding people

Commmon Coin worked well for Trading and made it a lot easier

Roads for Traveling and Tradeing were linked

Trade was very Vast

Agriculture was most important industry

Managing a Huge Empire

Rome's army didn't always include Roman citizens there were non-Romans there working for citizenship and to spread roman ways

Many different languages and customs

The borders of Rome stretched around 10,000 miles