21. Compare as civilizing forces the Roman and the Persian empires.
22. What was the Pax Romana? What is the Pax Britannica?
23. Compare the Romanization of the ancient world with that process of Americanization which is going on in the United States to-day.
24. Explain this statement: "The Roman Empire is the lake in which all the streams of ancient history lose themselves and which all the streams of modern history flow out of."
25. "Republican Rome had little to do, either by precept or example, with the modern life of Europe, Imperial Rome everything." Can you justify this statement?
FOOTNOTES
[1] Webster, Readings in Ancient History, chapter xix, "The Makers of Imperial Rome: Character Sketches by Suetonius"; chapter xx, "Nero, a Roman Emperor."
[2] Hence our word "prince".
[3] See page 184.
[4] The provinces of Pannonia, Noricum, and Raetia. See the map facing page 184.