Augustus won the Final Civil War of the Roman Republic, thus ending a long period of civil wars which tore the Republic apart and left the Romans exhausted. Augustus established absolute rule by emperors and was the first Roman emperor. He had a tight grip of the government and politics of Rome and restored stability. This led to what historians have called the Pax Romana, a 207-year period of relative political stability in the Roman Empire which also led to the growth of thriving trading networks around the empire and prosperity.
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There was no such thing as the first civilised people of Rome. Rome was a civilisation from its inception.
Even though Augustus brought an era of peace and prosperity to the empire, Rome still had its problems such as revolts in Gaul and in the east, unrest domestically because not everyone was happy with the principate and plots were hatched against Augustus. Rome also considered the marriage laws that threatened the free and easy lifestyles of some of the younger people, a problem.
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Augustus summed up his view in a famous sentence he said on his deathbed: "I found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble."