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Title: The dawn of American history in Europe
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Nida, William Lewis
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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diterranean swarmed withsails. Between Europe and Central Asia, there was a flour-ishing commerce, carried along three great routes: oneby way of the Black Sea, and by caravan across Asia;one by way of the Suez and the Red Sea, to India; and oneby caravan across Arabia. From frontier to frontier traveland trade were safe and rapid. The grand military roadsran in great trunk lines from every frontier toward Rome.From these main highways ran branch roads which formeda dense network in every province. Routes and distanceswere given in guidebooks, and there were many hotels alongthe way. Messengers who hurried along the great high-roads traveled a hundred or a hundred and fifty miles a day.In all the provinces, rude stockaded villages changed intosplendid cities, huts into palaces, footpaths into pavedRoman roads. The Romans watered part of the Africandesert and made it the garden of the world. The travelerof to-day may see the ruins amid the drifting sand. In ROME CONQUERING THE WORLD 33
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34 DAWN OF AMERICAN HISTORY IN EUROPE Gaul Caesar found no real towns; in the third century thatprovince had one hundred and sixteen flourishing cities,with their baths, temples, amphitheaters, works of art, roads,aqueducts, and famous schools of learning. Centuries of Peace. — We are told that for centuriesthe entire civilized world was at peace. There were oc-casional wars on the distant frontiers, but the millions ofRomans throughout the empire heard and saw little of war.•Thus there was peace and prosperity everywhere. Neverbefore or since has so large a part of the world known sucha long time of unbroken rest from the horrors and wasteof war. The great historian, Gibbon, said that he wouldrather have lived at some time during those centuries ofpeace than at any other time in the worlds history. The Spread of a New Religion. — It was in these days,when all the civilized world was at peace, when there wasone language and one law for all, when there was a vasttrade and unhmite

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