Changes To Life During The Early Empire Pax Romana

Many changes came to life during the Roman Empire times. With those changes came new emperors with new policies, beliefs, and of course upgrades on architectural buildings. In my opinion, Emperors used the combination of architecture and art to mold the way they wanted their community to live under them. During the early Empire Pax Romana took place and what it did is it created peace among the Mediterranean world. When this peace was created it profited the Romans by creating roads, bridges, theaters and many more things. On Livia’s birthday, Augustus dedicated the Altar of Augustus Peace to her. This serves as a reminder of one of his greatest achievements (pg 256 fig. 10-29). Forum of Augustus was one of his most ambitious projects. This
I believe that the people under Augustus must have been filled with so much prosperity and hope. He helped transform Rome in so many ways. If I were to put myself in their shoes I would be very impressed. They didn’t have any type of technology that we have now to be able to build such incredible things. Emperor Claudius created the Porta Maggiore (pg 258 fig. 10-34) it’s two gateways that supported the water channels. His type of style was more of a rustic masonry style. Nero was stepson to Claudius and under Nero’s ruling, a great fire came to be destroying many parts of Rome. The part left untouched by the fire had to be brought up to code by using concrete. During this process, Nero asked two architect/engineers to create a new palace for him on land that the fire had destroyed thus the Golden House of Nero was created. Nero’s palace was very extravagant with an octagonal hall and many more features (pg 259 fig. 10-35). Nero wasn’t so pleasant as an emperor so he was forced into taking his own life a new emperor named Vespasian Flavius took his place. Vespasian had two boys and they were the creators of the most iconic architectural piece in Rome the