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.
In Pax Romana, Adrian Goldsworthy feeds our fascination for Rome by chronicling how the Romans conquered and then administered its empire. As one of the most prolific and knowledgeable modern scholars of ancient Rome, Goldsworthy is particularly well suited to tell this tale.