. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. overnment. 226. Reign of Trajan ( 98-117).—Trajan was anative of Spain, and a soldier by profession and talent. FROM TIBERIUS TO MARCUS AURELIUS. 355 He was the first provincial to sit in the seat of the this time forward provincials were to play a partof ever-increasing importance in the affairs of the empire. Trajans ambition toachieve military re-nown led him to under-take distant and im-portant conquests. Itwas the policy ofAugustus — a policyadopted by most of hissuccessors — to makethe Danube in Euro
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. overnment. 226. Reign of Trajan ( 98-117).—Trajan was anative of Spain, and a soldier by profession and talent. FROM TIBERIUS TO MARCUS AURELIUS. 355 He was the first provincial to sit in the seat of the this time forward provincials were to play a partof ever-increasing importance in the affairs of the empire. Trajans ambition toachieve military re-nown led him to under-take distant and im-portant conquests. Itwas the policy ofAugustus — a policyadopted by most of hissuccessors — to makethe Danube in Europeand the Euphrates inAsia the limits of theRoman empire in thoserespective Trajan determinedto push the frontiersof his dominions be-yond both these rivers,scorning to permitNature by these bar-riers to mark out theconfines of Romansovereignty. In the early part ofhis reign Trajan wasbusied in wars against the Dacians, tribes that, as we haveseen, had often disturbed the peace of the Mcesian prov-ince. The trouble at this time was caused by Trajan. Trajan. (From a statue in the Museum at Naples.) 356 ROME AS AN EMPIRE. refusing to make good the agreement of Domitian withthese tribes to pay them tribute (par. 224). In his second campaign Trajan facilitated his operationsby constructing across the Danube a bridge, some of thepiers of which may still be seen. This expedition resultedin the complete subjugation of the troublesome was now made into a province. Roman emigrantspoured in crowds into the region, great cities sprang up,
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