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.
The Roman Road Network. The Romans did not invent roads, of course, but, as in so many other fields, they took an idea which went back as far as the Bronze Age and extended that concept, daring to squeeze from it the fullest possible potential. The first and most famous great Roman road was the Via Appia (or Appian Way). Constructed from 312 BCE and covering 196 km (132 Roman miles), it linked Rome to Capua in as straight a line as possible and was known to the Romans as the Regina viarum or 'Queen of Roads'.