A platform can be seen both as a constraint on the application development process â the application is written for such-and-such a platform â and an assistance to the development process, in that they provide low-level functionality ready-made. An application, such as a spreadsheet or word processor, which hosts software written in an application-specific scripting language, such as an Excel macro. 2  This can be extended to writing fully-fledged applications with the Microsoft Office suite as a platform.
Pax Romana means roman peace, or literally, the peace of Rome. It lasted roughly 200 years and was a time of prosperity ad relative peace for the empire.
Pax Romana (Latin for the Roman Peace) was the long period of relative peacefulness and minimal expansion by the Roman military force experienced by the Roman Empire after the end of the Final War of the Roman Republic and before the beginning of the Crisis of the Third Century.