Editing Pax Romana (section)

==Influence on trade==

Roman trade in the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] increased during the Pax Romana.  Romans sailed East to acquire silks, gems, onyx and spices.  Romans benefited from large profits, and incomes in the Roman empire were raised due to trade in the Mediterranean.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Roman market economy|last=Temin|first=Peter|date=2013|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9780691147680|location=Princeton|pages=13|language=en|oclc = 784708336}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Pax Romana : war, peace, and conquest in the Roman world|last=Goldsworthy|first=Adrian Keith|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2016|isbn=9780300178821|location=New Haven|pages=392|oclc=941874968}}</ref>

As the Pax Romana of the western world by Rome was largely contemporaneous to the [[Pax Sinica]] of the eastern world by [[Han dynasty|Han China]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Plott|first=John C.|title=Global History of Philosophy|year=1989|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|location=Delhi|isbn=9788120804562|page=57}}</ref><ref name=enckre135/> long-distance travel and trade in [[History of Eurasia|Eurasian history]] was significantly stimulated during these eras.<ref name=enckre135>{{cite book
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 |volume=3: O–Z, Index
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