Identifier: historyofancient03good (find matches)
Title: A history of the ancient world, for high schools and academies
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Goodspeed, George Stephen, 1860-1905
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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nations was greatly restricted. The land tax andthe poll tax, the two direct taxes levied, were collected bythe state; the pubHcan (§379) still dealt in the customsand other like imposts. Thus a business administrationwas established which saved money and gave the stateabundant revenues. Augustus spent this money freelyon imperial roads and buildings throughout the Empire.By these means he created new bonds of unity which heldthe Roman world together as never before and broughtabout the extension of Roman civilization from end toend of it. We can hardly conceive the immense advan-tage to the provinces of this stable and beneficent gov-ernment. 429. The policy of Augustus with respect to the peo-ples outside the Roman world was in general a very pru-dent one. In the East he had no desire to follow up theproject of Julius Caesar for a war with Parthia. He wascontent by skilful negotiation to obtain the return of the *The word means basket; in Roman households the money-boxwas a basket.
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THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THETIME OF AUGUSTUS. 0 100 200 300 400 500 Scale of Miles. D Boundaries of Roman Empire at death of Julius Caesar*DTerritory added by Augustus. States allied to Rome.H Senatorial Provinces.

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