How did laws help keep the roman empire together during the 200 years of the pax romana?

Answer 1

During the Pax Romana the army was used mainly to protect and stabilize the borders. This is not so say that there were no additions of territory (which was soon given up) or that there were no wars or battles. It merely means that the main business of the army was on the borders.

Answer 2

The Romans allowed the conquered peoples use their customary laws at the local level, which they called mos regionis (regional tradition or law of the land). This was part of a wider policy of tolerance which included their religions and the customs. The Romans saw this policy as a source of social stability. 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.

The coexistence of Roman and other laws was framed within the concept of jus gentium. Until 225 AD the provincials, the people outside Italy who had been conquered or were under Roman influence, enjoyed the rights of jus gentium (the law of nations). Nation in Latin was the word for ethnicity and just gentium was a sort of natural law which was regarded as "innate in every human being." The rights it conferred were considered to be held by all persons. They were based on the notion that the concept of justice sprung from the natural reason of the human mind rather than ethnicity and that they applied to all ethnicities regardless of citizenship. Through this, the provincials enjoyed the protection of Roman civil law in their dealings with Roman citizens. Cases between Romans and non-Romans were adjudicated by the praetor peregrino, the chief justice for foreigners, who was supposed base his rulings on fairness and on Roman civil law.

In 225 BC the emperor Caracalla extended full Roman citizenship to all the freeborn in the Roman Empire.

Answer 3

That they go places were they go and fight those who are wrong and defeat the evil ... The end

Answer 4

The role during the pax romana was the time of peace that grew greater size