section{Pax Romana}
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indent Pax Romana (Latin for "Roman peace") was the long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. Since it was established by Augustus, it is sometimes called Pax Augusta. It;s span was approximately 206 years (27 BC to 180 AD) according to Encyclopaedia Britannica[1] or from 70 AD to 192 AD according to The Cambridge Ancient History. hfill\
indent The Pax Romana is said  to have been a "miracle" because prior to it there had never been peace for so many centuries in a given period of human history.[3] According to Walter Goffart however, "peace is not what one finds in it[s pages]".[2]  hfill\
indent Eckstein also notes that the incipient Pax Romana appeared during the Republic and that its temporal span varied with geographical region as well: "Although the standard textbook dates for the Pax Romana, the famous “Roman Peace” in the Mediterranean, are 31 BC to AD 250, the fact is that the Roman Peace was emerging in large regions of the Mediterranean at a much earlier date: Sicily after 210 [BC]; peninsular Italy after 200 [BC]; the Po Valley after 190 [BC]; most of Spain after 133 [BC]; North Africa after 100 [BC]; and for ever longer stretches of time in the Greek East". hfill\