How Did The Change And Continuity Of Pax Romana

From about 27 BCE to 180 BCE, Rome enjoyed a period time titled Pax Romana. During that time, Rome's economy and culture flourished. Arguably, they flourished because there was peace and there was internal stability. However, at the end of Marcus Aurelius' reign in 180 BCE, the Roman Empire slowly transitioned out of the classical ages into a period of disorder from which it would never recover. That transition was reflected in the empire's politics and culture; even so, elements of Rome as it was would also remain in the empire's politics and culture.

To begin with, the strength of Roman Empire's political system began to decline in the late second century, which contributed to the fall of the empire as a whole. Before the beginning of Pax

One way that such manifests itself is in the empire's religion. Until the mid fourth century, the official religion had officially been one of polytheism; the emperor Constantine introduced Christianity at that point. Decades after the emperor's death, Christianity would be named the official state religion. Such would influence the culture as it unified the empire's peoples under one church, where before they had had a pantheon of gods from which they might worship above others. The change from Roman polytheism to Christianity would also manifest itself in a change of architecture, as Roman's developed a building structure suited to a church. Despite this, not all art forms would change with the introduction of Christianity. Although Christianity would become a common theme within artwork, that art would continue to exemplify characteristics of Greco-Roman art. Another cultural change that came with Rome's decline and the rise of the Eastern Roman was the change of common tongue from Latin to Greek, even though Latin continued to be the official language of the empire. Such makes sense since the Roman capitol was now closer to Greece than it had been. Basically, during the decline of Rome from the second to seventh century as the empire fell from the classical age and separated in two, Christianity and Grecian influence contributed to the empire's cultural change; even so, elements of traditional Roman culture like the Greco-Roman art style and the official use of Latin, remained