Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . Part III—The E^ipire. Chapter lxii.—the First PIE establishment of tlieRoman Emjiire is geuer-ally dated from the battleof Aetium, B. C. event, huwcver, aswell as the peacealile rec-ognition of his authi>rltyafter the cuniuest of Egypt, was b
Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . Part III—The E^ipire. Chapter lxii.—the First PIE establishment of tlieRoman Emjiire is geuer-ally dated from the battleof Aetium, B. C. event, huwcver, aswell as the peacealile rec-ognition of his authi>rltyafter the cuniuest of Egypt, was but tlie culmi-nation lit a Mi-ies of historical movements, which,so far a> [» i>unal agency was concerned, hadtheir origin with Julius Caesar. As a matterof foct, Augustus was the inheritor . Itnow remains to trace out briefly the ofthat colossal power which, under the name ofthe Empfre, was destined to survive in theWest for five hundred and in the East firfifteen hundred years. The picture will becrowded with more sjilendid but h-s heroicevents than those wliich make up the historyof the Repuljlie. The great fact in the new power thus es-tablished was centralization. The civi
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