The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . man domain up to theline of the Elbe, and in consequence of military mea-sures on a large scale the coast line inhabited byBatavians and Frisians became Roman at least asfar as the Ems. The nature of the German resist-ance had however decided that inner Germanywas never to become part of the Roman Empire,and in the famous document in which Augustusleft on record his mature convictions on public affairs,it was evidently indicated that the future boundarybetween the Roman and the German zone was tobe the line of the Rhine and Danube. At this time
The arts and crafts of our Teutonic forefathers . man domain up to theline of the Elbe, and in consequence of military mea-sures on a large scale the coast line inhabited byBatavians and Frisians became Roman at least asfar as the Ems. The nature of the German resist-ance had however decided that inner Germanywas never to become part of the Roman Empire,and in the famous document in which Augustusleft on record his mature convictions on public affairs,it was evidently indicated that the future boundarybetween the Roman and the German zone was tobe the line of the Rhine and Danube. At this timewhat had previously been the Celtic zone had be-come Romanized, so that now there are two greatbelts shown on Map B, the Roman to the south, theTeutonic and Slavic to the north of this great naturalboundary. The policy of Augustus was followed inthe main by his successors, but Trajan by establish-ing the great province of Dacia to the north of the 6i MIGRATIONS AND SETTLEMENTS lower Danube extended to somewhat dangerous limits the eastern part B. The Roman Empire—Frontier ofAugustus. of the Empire. By thesame time there hadbeen brought about afurther rectification offrontier in the westernpart that was of moreob-vious advantage to theRomans. The Rhineand the Danube in the uppermost parts of their courses flow, the one tothe north-west the other to the north-east, and theyleave between them a large triangular district thatis partly occupied by the Black Forest. When thetwo streams approach points in their flow corre-sponding roughly to Mainz and to Regensburg, theircourses are more or less in a straight line which cutsacross Europe from the North Sea to the Euxine,and forms the natural boundary already spoken complete this line the points on the rivers justnamed were joined by a line of forts and a palisade,using in part the ridge of the Taunus mountainsand the course of the Main as Its base. This Is theso-called German Limes or Pfahlgraben, oneof the forts on which, the
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