You often see westaboos romanticising western civilizations by saying shit like “Before the Roman empire unified everyone all those places were warring with each other! Rome ushered in centuries of peace!”
Or similar shit about America or Africa "Those slur tribes were all fighting each other anyway! It became more peaceful under colonial rule!
Even ignoring how silly believing imperial propaganda about “barbarians” is, life under these so-called peace times was fucking horrible. Slavery, apartheid and exploitation, the fucking collesium??!?. A huge portion of the population were literally kept like cattle, whipped, brutalized and forced to do the hard labour.
Peaceful for who, exactly?
Never understood how Rome was “peaceful” when it is an expansionary entity that had 25 years long military services with rewards for service in land and looting of the enemy is considered wage bonus.
With this kind of society, you’ll end up with a thinly stretched territory where it is not possible to fight in the periphery aboard.