I guess you refer to Darius I (the Great) the third king of the Achaeminid Empire (the Persian Empire at its greatest extent). He divided the empire into provinces and placed satraps (governors) to administer them. It was a creation of administrative subdivisions.
The stationed the bulk of the Roman legions in the frontier provinces of the empire.
From Augustus' time, the legions were located in the border provinces to protect the empire from foreign invasion.
Augustus made the government of Rome and the Roman empire stronger. He reestablished a strong central government which was able to control the governors of the provinces of the empire who had previously acted independently form Rome.
Augustus' rule ushered in the Pax Romana, a period of peace and prosperity throughout the Empire. The downside was, of course, that the peace was kept by a ruthless iron hand on the throats of the provinces.
The Ottoman Empire had 29 provinces.
Augustus did not divide Rome, it was Diocletian who divided the empire.
Twenty Satrapies (Provinces).
The stationed the bulk of the Roman legions in the frontier provinces of the empire.
The stationed the bulk of the Roman legions in the frontier provinces of the empire.
From Augustus' time, the legions were located in the border provinces to protect the empire from foreign invasion.
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he divide the empire into two provinces because King Darius appointed Satraps or governors to rule various provinces in his empire for easier governance. By appointing Satraps, he was free from mundane daily bureaucratic issues of ruling an empire that streched from the northern borders of India, the entire Middle East and all the way to Libya and parts of Greece.
Augustus made the government of Rome and the Roman empire stronger. He reestablished a strong central government which was able to control the governors of the provinces of the empire who had previously acted independently form Rome.
Augustus' rule ushered in the Pax Romana, a period of peace and prosperity throughout the Empire. The downside was, of course, that the peace was kept by a ruthless iron hand on the throats of the provinces.
The Ottoman Empire had 29 provinces.
The Roman empire was an empire before Augustus. It was an empire under the republican form of government. In other words Rome was governed as a republic before Augustus. During and after Augustus the empire was governed by the principate form of government.
He shared power with the Senate, pulling strings in the background and controlling the border provinces which contained the army.