While the Decius himself may have intended the edict as a way to reaffirm his conservative vision of the Pax Romana and to reassure Rome's citizens that the empire was still secure, it nevertheless sparked a " terrible crisis of authority as various Christian bishops and their flocks reacted to it in different ways.

Pax Khazarica is a term used by historians to refer to the period during which the Khazaria dominated the Pontic steppe and the Caucasus Mountains.

* Sudan – A Cry for Peace, published by Pax Christi International, Brussels, Belgium, 1994

With each legion having 5, 120 legionaries usually supported by an equal number of auxiliary troops, the total force available to a legion commander during the Pax Romana probably ranged from 11, 000 downwards, with the more prestigious legions and those stationed on hostile borders or in restive provinces tending to have more auxiliaries.

In international relations the era was a long period of peace, known as the Pax Britannica, and economic, colonial, and industrial consolidation, temporarily disrupted by the Crimean War in 1854.

During 191, the city of Rome was extensively damaged by a fire that raged for several days, during which many public buildings including the Temple of Pax, the Temple of Vesta and parts of the imperial palace were destroyed.

Pax Romana ( Latin for " Roman peace ") was the long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.

Since it was established by Caesar Augustus it is sometimes called Pax Augusta.

The concept of Pax Romana was first described by Edward Gibbon in Chapter Two of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Pax Americana ( Latin for " American Peace ") is a term applied to the historical concept of relative peace in the Western Hemisphere and later the Western world resulting from the preponderance of power enjoyed by the United States starting around the turn of the 19th to 20th century.

The term derives from and is inspired by the Pax Romana of the Roman Empire, the Pax Britannica of the British Empire and the Pax Mongolica of the Mongol Empire.

The larger states were surrounded by smaller states, but these had no anxieties: no standing armies to require taxes and hinder labor ; no wars or rumors of wars that would interrupt trade ; there is not only peace, but security, for the Pax Americana of the Union covered all the states within the federal constitutional republic.

As in similar instances elsewhere, this Pax Americana was not quite clearly marked in its geographical limit, nor was it guided by any theoretical consistency, but rather by the merits of the case and the test of immediate expediency in each instance.

Indeed, the nascent Pax Americana was, in essence, abetted by the policy of the United Kingdom, and the preponderance of global sea power which the British Empire enjoyed by virtue of the strength of the Royal Navy.

The modern Pax Americana era is cited by both supporters and critics of United States foreign policy after the Second World War.

The term Pax Americana was explicitly used by John F. Kennedy in the 1960s, who advocated against the idea, arguing that the Soviet bloc was composed of human beings with the same individual goals as Americans and that such a peace based on " American weapons of war " was undesirable:

Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.

Beginning around the Vietnam War, the ' Pax Americana ' term had started to be used by the critics of American Imperialism.

The modern Pax Americana derives partly from the direct influence of the United States, but as significantly or more so from international institutions backed by American financing and diplomacy.

However, in spite of extensive reforms by later emperors, the Roman trade network was never able to fully recover to what it had been during the Pax Romana ( 27 B. C .— A. D.

The resurrection creche can regenerate someone carrying a cruciform from their remains ( though not always ); this is integrated into the Pax Christian church original concept of resurrection.

Pope John XXII was presented a memorandum from the eastern church describing their Pax Mongolica: "... Khagan is one of the greatest monarchs and all lords of the state, e. g. the king of Almaligh ( Chagatai Khanate ), emperor Abu Said and Uzbek Khan, are his subjects, saluting his holiness to pay their respects.

Pope John XXII was presented a memorandum from the eastern church describing the Pax Mongolica of the Mongol Empire that "... Khagan is one of the greatest monarchs, and all lords of this state, e. g. the king of Almaligh ( Chagatai Khanate ), emperor Abu Said and Uzbek Khan, are his subjects, who salute his holiness to pay their respects.

After the Roman occupation, the neighbouring town of Beja ( known as Pax Julia to the Romans ) became the Roman capital of Pacensis ( southern subdivision of Lusitania province ) and Serpa was settled by Roman settlers.

These include the allegorical portrait of Sir John Luttrell with the goddess Pax, commemorating Luttrell's military exploits and the Treaty of Boulogne ( 24 March 1550 ) which finally brought peace between England, Scotland, and France after the long wars known as the Rough Wooing.

Pax Christi ( Latin for Peace of Christ ) was established in France in 1945 as a reconciliation work between the French and the Germans after the Second World War.

During the era after the war, later called the Pax Mongolica, adventurous Westerners such as Marco Polo travelled all the way to China and brought the first reports of its wonders to Europe.

The empire, wracked with civil war for the last century of the Republic and for years following the Pax Romana, was largely free of large-scale power disputes.

Democratic peace theory hold that democracies rarely, or never, make war on one another and results in a Pax Universalis.

However, the ancient Autobot, Alpha Trion reconstructed young robot Orion Pax into Optimus Prime, as the war erupted again.

Schilling and Capdeville counter that it is his function of presiding over the return to peace that gave Janus this epithet, as confirmed by his association on March 30 with Pax, Concordia and Salus, even though it is true that Janus as god of all beginnings presides also over that of war and is thus often called belliger bringer of war as well as pacificus.

On April 15, 1935 the Roerich Pact was signed by the United States and Latin American nations, agreeing that " historic monuments, museums, scientific, artistic, educational and cultural institutions " should be protected both in times of peace and war, and identified by their flying a distinctive flag, the Banner of Peace, bearing the Pax Cultura emblem.

Megatron turned on Pax and fatally injured him, but the ancient Autobot, Alpha Trion, then rebuilt Pax into the first of a new, battle-hardy breed of Autobot-now, he was Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots, who led them against Megatron and the Decepticons as the civil war erupted once more.

With this sacrifice, he not only loses the Wisdom of the Primes but also his memories of the war and his comrades, and joins Megatron as a Decepticon under his old name, Orion Pax.

Hardly had Ellenborough issued his medal with the legend " Pax Asiae Restituta " when he was at war with the amirs of Sind.

With this sacrifice, he not only loses the Wisdom of the Primes but also his memories of the war and his comrades, and joins Megatron as a Decepticon under his old name, Orion Pax.

Before the war, Optimus, then known as Orion Pax, was a graduate from the Institute for Higher Programming and a rising star in Cybertron's police, an inspiration to officers like Springarm.

King was also a member of Pax Christi and opposed war and capital punishment, though he stressed the peaceful prevention of conflict over strict pacifism.

The rise period witnessed Sultanate of Rûm's defeat against the Mongols in the 14th century and was followed by the Growth of the Ottoman Empire ( 29 May 1453 – 11 / 12 September 1683 ) — a period referred as Pax Ottomana, the economic and social stability attained in the conquered provinces of the Ottoman Empire, by some historians.

Though he still didn't trust Megatron, Orion Pax now knew he had told the truth about Zeta Prime and accepted his proposal that they join forces against him.

The city allied itself with Rome during the Punic Wars, thereby escaping damage or ruin and entered a relatively peaceful 700-year stint under Pax Romana, although Hannibal made use of it as a military base in his campaign against Scipio Africanus at the close of the Second Punic War.