text:  A piece of propaganda. And that, in a lot of ways, kicked off the Pax Romana. Oh, it is. Because the Roman Empire had broken the spirit in the back of the tribes that it wanted to control, and now they ushered in 2,000 years of stability. I guess everybody's happy as long as the boot of the emperors is holding your neck to the ground. You have to accept certain things to get the peace.