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Jiang's endpoint label for the Roman imperial prophecy in which peace supposedly reigns forever.
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Pax Romana
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Jiang invokes it as the imperial order whose peace concealed severe inequality and the futility of revolt.
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The Roman Peace, described by Jiang as the imperial promise of eternal peace and the end of conflict.
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The Roman peace, used by Jiang as a period in which peace removed war as social mobility and intensified inequality.
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Jiang says the Aeneid turns prophecy into the full history of Rome: expansion, Mediterranean conquest, Caesar, Augustus, and the Pax Romana as a supposed end of history.
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Jiang groups the Bible, Virgil, Pax Romana, and Fukuyama as variants of line-history because each imagines movement toward an end point where conflict is resolved.
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Jiang presents Augustus Caesar as the endpoint of history in the Aeneid's imperial logic: all events converge toward him and the Pax Romana.
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Pax Romana is framed as eternal peace on earth and as the imperial promise that Roman order will end war and conflict.
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To explain why apocalyptic Christianity grows, Jiang compares Pax Romana and Pax Americana: long peace can reduce mass death but also preserve and intensify inequality.
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"...Heaven will come to earth and peace will reign forever. The Pax Romana, okay? And this is why things had to happen the way..."
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"...roman roman empire was really really evil the roman empire the pax romana marked a time of tremendous inequality where a few people had..."
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"on us in a useless cycle it is moving towards a truth is moving towards a good end okay so then this idea has..."
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"...rise of Augustus Caesar and this will create something called the Pax Romana and this is the end of history this is where all..."
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"...towards, converge to Augustus Caesar because Augustus Caesar will create the Pax Romana, what we call the Roman Peace, which is the idea of..."
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"...Roman Empire, okay? At that time, there was something called the Pax Romana, which meant the Roman peace, okay? Which meant that the Romans..."
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"If you're poor, what happens? You become more poor, okay? So, as a poor person, what do you think? You think that life is..."
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"...This is Latin for the Mongol Peace. You've heard of the Pax Romana. We are now living in the Pax Americana. Okay? So the..."
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"...trying to create an eternal peace. Right? What is called the Pax Romana. The emperors are trying to be the ultimate emperor of humanity...."
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"...create the world through our actions and emotions. Okay? In the Pax Romana and Augustus Caesar, all you have to do is obey and..."
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