Because Rome at this time had a vast territory and an outrageous population. Therefore, no other empire could compete with Rome or launch an attack on the Roman Empire. It was only the Romans who continued to expand their empire.

It's just your own territory.

We can understand that Rome has almost no threat of war, so its military strength and other aspects can be ignored for a period of time. Another thing is that Rome is currently so huge, which results in a very large population, which may have been squeezed before.

Common people, even crazy slaves, are not needed at all now. We can imagine that the current Roman high-ranking officials and nobles, they long ago obtained a bag of grain from a common person, but now they can obtain it from a common person.

Ten common people can obtain this bag of grain in one year. This is the situation after the population surge. Therefore, the labor that originally required one common person in one year is now divided among ten people.

With this concept of population and the lack of any kind of war, the Roman emperor and the Senate only need to enjoy themselves. Even if the civilians oppose it, it will have no big effect, because the senior officials are very wealthy and have very strong military strength.

Enough, even if there is a small-scale resistance, it is very easy for the higher-ups to suppress it with bloody soldiers.

But it is undeniable that the common people in Rome are indeed better off than before, but this is only from the level of the emperor. If you look at it from the level of the nobles, this may not be the case, because the nobles

Greed is very great. In addition to the taxes set by the emperor, he will still find other ways to exploit the common people. This is also a direct factor that leads to the resistance of the common people.

Anyway, no matter what we say, the current Roman emperors are much more comfortable than before. They only need to use a lot of wealth to indulge in debauchery, eat, drink and have fun, because no major events will happen in the Roman Empire.

There is nothing outrageous that needs to be dealt with immediately, so this indirectly seems to have achieved an era of peace.

But this kind of peace also has drawbacks. For example, Rome developed very fast before, whether it was military, architecture or even philosophy of the cultural system, or even literature and art. But now, Rome has begun to develop.

It becomes slower because it seems to lose the meaning of the concept of competition.

Okay, let’s stop talking about this era of Rome that we have always liked. As for some other places on the earth during this period, let’s also learn about it together.

For example, we modern people have also heard of Pompeii. Pompeii has been infinitely fictionalized and deified in our modern TV programs or movies. In fact, what should we say about this place? Pompeii is

It is located on the plains on the west coast of the Italian Peninsula, about 240 kilometers away from Rome. Because Pompeii is on the seaside, the scenery here is very beautiful, it can be said to be picturesque, and the climate here is also very mild.

So in this place, around the sixth century BC, many people came here to build Pompeii, which was basically a house with a stone-based structure. People cultivated land outside Pompeii and planted olives, lemons, grapes, etc.

Waiting for crops. People here live very happily. After all, there are no wars at this time, so we can also say that people’s lives are very happy.

But Pompeii also had a shortcoming. This was that there was a dormant volcano in the north of Pompeii. Today our people call it Mount Vesuvius. So in AD 62, when the Roman Empire was about the age of Octavian, Italy

A major earthquake occurred at this time, but as we have said before, the buildings in Pompeii were basically made of stone, so they did not suffer much damage. People did not pay too much attention to this major earthquake.

I cared about it, then repaired the damaged building and continued to live here.

Anyway, the lives of people in Pompeii are still as happy and happy as before, but in the afternoon of August 24, 79 AD, disaster suddenly struck. Mount Vesuvius had never been in any situation before, and at this time

It actually erupted! The crater spewed out billowing smoke, straight into the sky, mixed with huge rocks and dust, and kept making deafening explosions. This is actually a normal phenomenon of volcanic eruptions, but Pompeii's

People have never seen this phenomenon, so they think it is the anger of the gods.

But all of a sudden, the sky darkened and the earth shook, as if the end of the world was coming. The sea water in the bay, which was originally calm, became agitated due to the earthquake. Huge waves were beating the land crazily at this time.

Moreover, the hot lava erupted from the crater turned into huge rocks when it fell from the sky to the ground. Suddenly, people in Pompeii began to flee in all directions, all trying to avoid the end of the world at this moment.

, but of course there is a limit to people's speed, but the eruption speed of volcanoes is very fast, so many people were killed by huge rocks falling from the sky before they could run, and then fell asleep on the ground forever.

Huge rocks were also smashing the buildings crazily.

Then there was a large amount of dust produced after the volcanic eruption, which completely fell from the sky together with the stones, as if it would completely cover the entire city of Pompeii in an instant. The people in Pompeii were killed by the stones from the sky at this time, and they could not even breathe now.

It started to become extremely difficult because there was so much dust.

In an instant, it began to rain heavily again. When the rain fell from the sky, it turned black, like black ink. It looked very scary. This heavy rain also triggered a huge flash flood.

The flash flood was mixed with countless rocks and soil, and then formed a very huge mudslide, which rushed towards Pompeii, which was located low down.

The people in Pompeii were soon in complete chaos, and then they realized that this was not the so-called doomsday when the gods were angry, this was the real doomsday! Between the choice of life and death, countless people still gave up what they had been doing.

Believing in money, even those glittering gold utensils, or even more valuable items, people just run for their lives and don't bother to collect these gold and silver treasures.

Seeing this, we all may think that the concept of money is indeed the most important concept in our human world. However, in the face of the real choice of life and death, the concept of money can also lose its original huge magic power! But it is not completely lost.

, we can also say that almost in an instant, the magic of the concept of money suddenly became not so important.

So at this time, people in Pompeii were crying and scrambling to escape. The scene was chaotic for a time. Then more than 20,000 people fled to the outer city, and more than 2,000 people were unfortunately swallowed up by mudslides and died on the way to escape, and

What’s even more outrageous is that the entire city of Pompeii has been completely engulfed by mudslides. A place that once made people think it was a happy and beautiful place, now it’s completely impossible to see what it looks like. What’s even more terrifying is that in Pompeii

There were two small towns on the north side of the city, one named Herculaneum and the other named Stabia, which were also swallowed up by huge mudslides and disappeared.

And such a beautiful and happy Pompeii City completely seemed to have disappeared from our earth, and other people began to gradually forget the existence of Pompeii City.

Then we continue to return to the topic of the Roman Empire. Previously we said that the Roman Empire had begun to show extreme weakness, so now we will continue to analyze it, and analyze it more carefully.

We can say that Octavian was the dictator who founded the Roman Empire. Although we modern people call Octavian the emperor, in fact we only called him the emperor based on his ruling power, so until the reign of Diocletian

In the Roman era, the head of state was changed to the emperor, and it was at this time that the monarchy was formally established.

But as we said before, Rome at this time had begun to decline infinitely. Between the first and second centuries AD, Rome was considered prosperous due to the wealth it had created, its vast territory, and even its population and other issues.

It was a short period of time, but this good situation did not last long. During this period, the Roman Empire experienced a very serious crisis, with economic decline and political turmoil. In addition, in order to show off the wealth of the empire, the Roman emperor often held various events or commemorations in order to show off the wealth of the empire.

On the day, a very grand event was held, all of which cost money.

Until 106 AD, the Roman Emperor Trajan held a festival for 123 consecutive days to commemorate his victory in Dacia. How outrageous is this? And during this period,

The interior of the Roman palace was even more corrupt. There were more than 100 beauticians on staff. However, when the nobles saw the emperor's life, they began to follow the example. Therefore, Roman officials and nobles at all levels, and even wealthy people,

People also began to spend money like water and live a life of extravagance and debauchery.

But these high-level people need to live this kind of life, which requires more vigorous exploitation of civilians. We can also say that it takes almost tens of thousands of civilians to exploit the wealth created by a nobleman to support this nobleman.
Chapter completed!