Pax Britannica

Examples of Pax Britannica in the following topics:

• The Monroe Doctrine

  • However, the Monroe Doctrine met with tacit British approval, and the Royal Navy mostly enforced it as part of the wider Pax Britannica, which maintained the neutrality of the seas.

• Trade and Currency under the Yuan

  • During the Yuan dynasty, trade flourished and peace reigned along the newly revived Silk Road, contributing to a period known as the Pax Mongolica.
  • Pax Mongolica, Mongol peace, enabled the spread of technologies, commodities, and culture between China and the West.
  • Pax Mongolica is a historiographical term, modeled after the original phrase Pax Romana, that describes the stabilizing effects of the conquests of the Mongol Empire on the social, cultural, and economic life of the inhabitants of the vast Eurasian territory that the Mongols conquered in the 13th and 14th centuries, including the Yuan dynasty in China.
  • Along with land trade routes, a Maritime Silk Road contributed to the flow of goods and establishment of a Pax Mongolica.
  • A closeup of the Mallorquín Atlas depicting Marco Polo traveling to the East on the Silk Road during the Pax Mongolica.

• The Pax Romana

  • The Pax Romana, which began under Augustus, was a 200-year period of peace in which Rome experienced minimal expansion by military forces.
  • Since this period was initiated during Augustus's reign, it is sometimes called Pax Augusta.
  • The Pax Romana started after Augustus, then Octavian, met and defeated Mark Antony in the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE.
  • Subsequent emperors followed his lead, sometimes producing lavish ceremonies to close the Gates of Janus, issuing coins with Pax on the reverse, and patronizing literature extolling the benefits of the Pax Romana.
  • Describe the key reasons for and characteristics of the Pax Romana.

• Overview of the Mongol Empire

  • The vast transcontinental empire connected the east with the west with an enforced Pax Mongolica, or Mongol Peace, allowing trade, technologies, commodities, and ideologies to be disseminated and exchanged across Eurasia.
  • The Pax Mongolica refers to the relative stabilization of the regions under Mongol control during the height of the empire in the 13th and 14th centuries.
  • Famous explorers, such as Marco Polo, also enjoyed the freedom and stability the Pax Mongolica provided, and were able to bring back valuable information about the East and the Mongol Empire to Europe.

• The Silk Road

  • This second Pax Sinica helped the Silk Road reach its golden age.
  • The Mongol Empire, and Pax Mongolica, strengthened and re-established the Silk Road between 1207 and 1360 CE.

• Mediterranean Trade and European Expansion

  • Although the Mongols had threatened Europe with pillage and destruction, Mongol states also unified much of Eurasia and, from 1206 on, the Pax Mongolica allowed safe trade routes and communication lines stretching from the Middle East to China—known as the silk road .

• Background

  • Looking through an Encyclopedia Britannica wouldn't generate the same speed and enthusiasm as it would to travel search on travelocity.com.

• Effects of the Peloponnesian War

• Unconscious Perception and Influences on Behavior

  • Hypnosis has been defined as "...a special psychological state with certain physiological attributes, resembling sleep only superficially and marked by a functioning of the individual at a level of awareness other than the ordinary conscious state" (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2004).

• Liberalism

  • According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, "In the United States, liberalism is associated with the welfare-state policies of the New Deal program of the Democratic administration of Pres.