frontier policy
- Created by: Grace Moorhouse
- Created on: 31-05-15 20:06
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- Augustus' frontier policy
- augustus' needs
- to create an efficient standing army to man the empire
- to gain defensible frontiers against 'barbarian' invaders.
- augustus' problems
- how to push the frontiers to their natural territorial limits without losing control of distant armies.
- how to provide a professional army and maintain its loyalty to the state rather than to its commanders.
- augustus was responsible for adding a huge amount of territory to the empire.
- some say he pursued an imperialistic policy.
- only after the annihilation of three legions in Germnay in AD9 and the realisation that Armenia could not be annexed that Augustus was okay with following a defensive policy.
- AIMS
- to consolidate those areas within the empire which were not pacified or organised.
- to abandon the haphazard expansion of the republic and to extend the empire to its natural and most defensible boundaries.
- to follow a non aggression policy in the east.
- augustus' needs
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