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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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