Identifier: outlinesofworlds03swin (find matches)
Title: Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind ..
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Swinton, William, 1833-1892
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati (etc.) American Book Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ended by theEmperor. Augustus, however, assumed nothing of the out-ward pomp of a monarch: he was satisfied with the sub-stance of supreme rule. The almost uninterrupted festivities, games, and distributions of corn and the like kept thepeople out of politics; and, what through degeneracy, andwhat through despair, they were willing to be out ofpolitics! 141. The boundaries of the Roman Empire as estab-Extent of the iished by Augustus may be stated in a generalEmpire. ^g^y ^g follows: On the north, the BritishChannel, the North Sea (Mare Germanicum), the Rhine,the Danube (Ister), and the Black Sea (Pontus Euxinus);on the east, the Euphrates and the Desert of Syria; on thesouth, the Sahara of Africa; and on the west, the AtlanticOcean. It extended from east to west a distance of fiftydegrees, or about 2700 miles, and had an average breadthof about fifteen degrees, or above 1000 miles. 142. The Roman Empire took in the modern countriesof Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Western Holland,
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