¶ … political, social and economical processes of the first century AD, it's important to distinguish main superpower, which dictated its values and spread its influence on other nations and ethnic groups. If to look on the problem from these perspective the problems that arose from such interaction will become obvious and clear. That's why we have to describe the processes that took place in the Roman Empire, the only super state on the world's map of that epoch.
At the beginning of the first century the power of Roman empire had expended over the territories of Mediterranean region: Romans had conquered Britain, Spain in the West and reached eastern borders of their possessions on the territories of modern Armenia, Northern Mesopotamia in the East, Romania in the North and Sarah in the South. Roman emperors starting from Julius Caesar expanded and empowered Roman Empire, its territories, increased army and turned into slavery tribes and the whole nations.
The results of Roman influence on conquered people were great, as they united new people whom Romans considered to be "barbarians" to the achievements of Roman culture, civilization and innovations associated with Greeks and Romans.
Romans rationalist approach to reality, their logics and consistence were later adopted by the nations they had conquered: Britons, Gaels, Celts, tribes of Balkans and Middle Asia. The interaction that Roman Empire brought to the ancient world was the result of clever politics and masterful management and government.
We cannot say that all conquered people and tribes had a variety of liberties, liberties that would be common for a modern man; they were alienated from Romans, were considered to be "barbarians," primitive and uncultured and were taxed unfairly. It created inequality and hatred to Romans, at the same time it was that had a very meaning of assistance to oppressed peoples not to assimilate and not to dissolve in the multi-national empire. Even though Romans didn't encourage assimilation and the discrimination, which was created already in Rome in the 4th century BC, laid into the fundamentals of Roman state- the division of society on patricians...
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