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Does anyone know anything about Caesar Augustus's foreign policy!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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From the end of 27 BC until the autumn of 19 BC, Augustus was absent from Rome pacifying and reorganizing the provinces, first in the west and then in the east!. In 18 BC his imperium, or supreme command, was renewed for five years!. From 16 BC to 13 BC he was again absent, strengthening and extending the northern frontiers!. His imperium was renewed for another five years when he returned!.

Throughout this period, and thereafter, Gallia Comata, most of Spain, the Balkans, Syria, and Egypt were under his direct control, and administered for him by his own legates and prefects!.

Augustus established a firm frontier for the empire: to the north, the friendly Batavians held the Rhine delta, and then the line followed the course of the Rhine and Danube; to the east, the Parthians were friendly, and the Euphrates gave the next line; to the south, the African colonies were protected by the desert; to the west were Spain and Gaul!. The provinces were governed either by imperial legates responsible to the princeps or by proconsuls appointed by the Senate!.

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Augustus is arguably the single most important figure in Roman history!. In the course of his long and spectacular career, he put an end to the advancing decay of the Republic and established a new basis for Roman government that was to stand for three centuries!. This system, termed the "Principate," was far from flawless, but it provided the Roman Empire with a series of rulers who presided over the longest period of unity, peace, and prosperity that Western Europe, the Middle East and the North African seaboard have known in their entire recorded history!. Even if the rulers themselves on occasion left much to be desired, the scale of Augustus's achievement in establishing the system cannot be overstated!. Aside from the immense importance of Augustus's reign from the broad historical perspective, he himself is an intriguing figure: at once tolerant and implacable, ruthless and forgiving, brazen and tactful!. Clearly a man of many facets, he underwent three major political reinventions in his lifetime and negotiated the stormy and dangerous seas of the last phase of the Roman Revolution with skill and foresight!. With Augustus established in power and with the Principate firmly rooted, the internal machinations of the imperial household provide a fascinating glimpse into the one issue that painted this otherwise gifted organizer and politician into a corner from which he could find no easy exit: the problem of the succession!.Www@QuestionHome@Com