The first two centuries of the Empire saw a period of unprecedented stability and prosperity known as the Pax Romana (“Roman Peace”) especially during the reign of the **five good emperors**: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius.
Rome reached its greatest territorial expanse during the reign of Trajan (AD 98–117).
I wish we would have been pillaged and plundered by Rome 🙁 Why did you not invade us daddy Rome?!
Not shown: One small village of indomitable Gauls, still holding out against the invaders
How long did they keep the empire at this exact size? Before they started losing territories
It seems like all of Gaul has been occupied by the Romans.
Iberia is not where you’d expect it to be.
European union Beta version
Mare Nostrum.
Emperor Trajan the Chad, kicking the Parthians butts and over extending his resources like a pro
Was going to comment how Judea would’ve been renamed by now but seems I was mistaken and that happened under Emperor Hadrians rule.
I like how extensive the city names are. Totally won’t use this for paradox games
On the map Augusta vindelicorum is north of the danube. Either this should be the Isar and the rest of the danube is missing or your map is terribly wrong
I live about 1 kilometre inside the edge of the empire (Hadrian’s Wall).
That’s true! There are Roman roads in Bulgaria with less potholes than roads built last year.
That eastern vassal has regions called Iberia and Albania…?
We are not named? We were a Municipium!
I demand a refund of my Roman taxes!
You just made me want to play a run of Civ6 using Trajan. Which I will do!
Trajan was the first emperor from a province (nowadays southern Spain). I wonder if this allowed him to have a productive better understanding of how things worked outside the metropolis.
Trajan: “rate my Mare Nostrum”
Can someone ELI5 how one rules this kind of kingdom without modern communications? It’s not like you can send a telegraph, mail would likely take days/weeks, maybe even months to get to some of the edges, and then double that to get a reply. Assuming the mail people don’t get killed by some random barbarians or thugs. By the time a small province has a rebellion and you send instructions it’s probably already over.
Hence “mare nostrum”.
Mare nostrum indeed
Now that’s a EU I could rally behind.
And what have the Romans ever done for us?
It’s interesting that this is the extent of the military and political power but their economic power reached far further than this. Roman coins are still being dug out of the ground on a daily basis by amateur metal detectorists far beyond the red areas on that map.
I don’t know why all of France is coloured in.
Everyone knows there was one village of indomitable Gauls who were holding out…
Imagine travelling from Carlisle in northern England to Basra, Iraq and never leaving the same state.
They managed to go a bit further in Britain and they actually occupied a lot of Germania. It was in the process of being an actual province but then Arminius did his thing and Varus lost a couple legions in the woods
Seems they failed to conquer that large white spot right in the middle of it.
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The first two centuries of the Empire saw a period of unprecedented stability and prosperity known as the Pax Romana (“Roman Peace”) especially during the reign of the **five good emperors**: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius.
Rome reached its greatest territorial expanse during the reign of Trajan (AD 98–117).
I wish we would have been pillaged and plundered by Rome 🙁 Why did you not invade us daddy Rome?!
Not shown: One small village of indomitable Gauls, still holding out against the invaders
How long did they keep the empire at this exact size? Before they started losing territories
It seems like all of Gaul has been occupied by the Romans.
Iberia is not where you’d expect it to be.
European union Beta version
Mare Nostrum.
Emperor Trajan the Chad, kicking the Parthians butts and over extending his resources like a pro
Was going to comment how Judea would’ve been renamed by now but seems I was mistaken and that happened under Emperor Hadrians rule.
I like how extensive the city names are. Totally won’t use this for paradox games
On the map Augusta vindelicorum is north of the danube. Either this should be the Isar and the rest of the danube is missing or your map is terribly wrong
[Got to Kilpatrick Hills](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilpatrick_Hills) & Said *”Fuck that”*, [So built another wall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonine_Wall).
I live about 1 kilometre inside the edge of the empire (Hadrian’s Wall).
That’s true! There are Roman roads in Bulgaria with less potholes than roads built last year.
That eastern vassal has regions called Iberia and Albania…?
We are not named? We were a Municipium!
I demand a refund of my Roman taxes!
You just made me want to play a run of Civ6 using Trajan. Which I will do!
Trajan was the first emperor from a province (nowadays southern Spain). I wonder if this allowed him to have a productive better understanding of how things worked outside the metropolis.
Trajan: “rate my Mare Nostrum”
Can someone ELI5 how one rules this kind of kingdom without modern communications? It’s not like you can send a telegraph, mail would likely take days/weeks, maybe even months to get to some of the edges, and then double that to get a reply. Assuming the mail people don’t get killed by some random barbarians or thugs. By the time a small province has a rebellion and you send instructions it’s probably already over.
Hence “mare nostrum”.
Mare nostrum indeed
Now that’s a EU I could rally behind.
And what have the Romans ever done for us?
It’s interesting that this is the extent of the military and political power but their economic power reached far further than this. Roman coins are still being dug out of the ground on a daily basis by amateur metal detectorists far beyond the red areas on that map.
I don’t know why all of France is coloured in.
Everyone knows there was one village of indomitable Gauls who were holding out…
Imagine travelling from Carlisle in northern England to Basra, Iraq and never leaving the same state.
They managed to go a bit further in Britain and they actually occupied a lot of Germania. It was in the process of being an actual province but then Arminius did his thing and Varus lost a couple legions in the woods
Seems they failed to conquer that large white spot right in the middle of it.