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Roman times were unique. Writing was widespread and the continent-wide infrastructure was without precedent. At the peak of Pax Romana, one could travel gener
by newbie12 14y ago
Roman times were unique. Writing was widespread and the continent-wide infrastructure was without precedent. At the peak of Pax Romana, one could travel generally without protection from southern England to Syria, speaking Latin or perhaps Greek the entire way.
Much of Western civilization has its roots in ancient Rome, (and in turn Rome from Greece) so also I think there's more interest in the period than other places/times.
- gus_massa 14y agoThe Mongol Empire had a similar period: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Mongolica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Mongolica
- fuzzythinker 14y agoThanks didn't know about the word "Pax". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana points to Pax_Mongolica (as gus_massa pointed out) among other Paxes.