History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . affairs and abilityto manage them declined. This was eventually a serious causeof general decay, as we shall see. IL The Civilization or the Early Roman Empire :THE Provinces 403. The Peoples of the Roman Empire. Here was a worldof sixty-five to a hundred million souls encircling the entireMediterranean. We might have stood at the Strait of Gibraltar,and, if human vision had been able to penetrate so far, we mighthave surveyed these peoples as our eyes swept along the Mediter-ranean coasts out through Africa a
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . affairs and abilityto manage them declined. This was eventually a serious causeof general decay, as we shall see. IL The Civilization or the Early Roman Empire :THE Provinces 403. The Peoples of the Roman Empire. Here was a worldof sixty-five to a hundred million souls encircling the entireMediterranean. We might have stood at the Strait of Gibraltar,and, if human vision had been able to penetrate so far, we mighthave surveyed these peoples as our eyes swept along the Mediter-ranean coasts out through Africa and back through Asia andEurope to the Strait again. On our right in Africa would have beenMoors, North Africans, and Egyptians ; in the eastern background. 2 6o History of Europe Arabs, Jews, Phcenicians, Syrians, Armenians, and Hittites;and as our eyes returned through Europe, Greeks, Italians,Gauls, and Iberians (Spaniards) ; while north of these were theBritons and some Germans within the frontier lines. All thesepeople were of course very different from one another in native. j-S^^ffajH^ i- -:f- 4^ c^ Fic. 68. A ix Ancikxt Pompeii as it appears To-day The pavement and sidewalk are in perfect condition, as when they were firstcovered by the falling ashes (§ 404). At the left is a public fountain, and inthe foreground is a street crossing. Of the buildings on this street only halfa story still stands, except at the left, where we see the entrances of twoshops, with the tops of the doors in position and the walls preserved to thelevel of the second floor above manners, clothing, and customs, but they all enjoyed Romanprotection and rejoiced in the far-reaching Roman peace. Forthe most part, as we have seen, they lived in cities, and thelife of the age was prevailingly a city life, even though many ofthe cities were small. 404. Pompeii. Fortunately one of the provincial cities hasbeen preserved to us with much that we might have seen there
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