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Peace is no war?
03
May
The long period from the emperor’s announcement Augustus (27 BC)
the end of the civil wars that lasted until the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius in 180 AD is called the Pax Romana, which is actually a negative view of peace because it means submission by weapons of subjugated peoples.
Yet this time the Romans lived under constant threat of barbarian invasions in their limits, and both Gaul is submitted from 58 BC to 51 BC by Julius Caesar, who also submits the Rhenish Germany.
This kind of peace, was used to Pax Romana expression trying to give a sense of security, order and progress for all people, but that hid the expression.
Also the right Roman font and set of legal rules used in Rome and then applied to the entire territory of the Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire in 476 A.D., the territory of the Eastern Roman Empire.
He continued to influence even after 476, and in the judicial order of several western kingdoms after the barbarian invasions, with a rediscovery of this by Roman jurists in the twelfth century, called the Civil Law Department.
But the medieval period still have many wars and treaties of “peace”, but remained negative concept of “pax romana” as the absence of war.
One might think a concept of peace overcoming warmongering culture? create a “culture of peace” between peoples and nations?
we will see several wars and peace treaties until the twentieth century
