A history of the ancient world, for high schools and academies . als, and was finally disposed of by assassination. Ro- The Roman Domain in 133 317 man supremacy in Spain was not secured till 133 Thesame year (133 ) the king of Pcrgamum, the faithfulally of Rome inthe east, died, be-queathing hisstate to the Ro-man people. Outof it was made theprovince of Asia. 379. Thus, by133 , Romeruled at leastseven provinces,Sicily, Sardinia(including Corsi-ca), Spain (di-vided into two),Macedonia, Afri-ca and Asia.*Strong coloniesdominated Cisal-pine Gaul, thoughit had not yet re-ceived
A history of the ancient world, for high schools and academies . als, and was finally disposed of by assassination. Ro- The Roman Domain in 133 317 man supremacy in Spain was not secured till 133 Thesame year (133 ) the king of Pcrgamum, the faithfulally of Rome inthe east, died, be-queathing hisstate to the Ro-man people. Outof it was made theprovince of Asia. 379. Thus, by133 , Romeruled at leastseven provinces,Sicily, Sardinia(including Corsi-ca), Spain (di-vided into two),Macedonia, Afri-ca and Asia.*Strong coloniesdominated Cisal-pine Gaul, thoughit had not yet re-ceived a provincial organization. The rapid growth of herforeign domains had made it impossible for Rome to alterthe original temporary form of government given to them(§ 368); it now became permanent. In place of the con-suls and praetors, who were sufficiently occupied at home,the government of the province was assigned to citizenson whom was conferred the same authority as that of a * Illyricum was probably also a province at this time, but the date Provinceof Asia. The Provincesand theirGovern-ment. 318 Romes Eastern Empire TheProconsul. The ProvincialConstitu-tion. Weaknessof theSystem. consul or a praetor and who acted in the place of* theseofficials. Hence they were called pro-consuls or pro-praetors, and were usually the consuls or praetors of the yearpreceding. A kind of constitution was established foreach province, determining such matters as the tribute tobe paid, the status of the different communities in the prov-ince and the rights and duties of the provincials. TheRoman peace was made binding; provincials could notbear arms; commercium and connubium (§ 342) betweenthe different communities were at first prohibited; a largeamount of local self-government was allowed. The au-thority of the proconsul was wide, limited only by the termsof the provincial constitution; his obligations were equallyextensive. He administered justice, preserved the peace,throug
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