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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 7887222, member: 87809&quot;]Not to forget that under Julius Caesar the definite victory over Gallia and its incorporation as a Roman province was necessary as a contribution to the glory of the Republic and of course his own, and was presented to the Senate and the people.</p><p>It is also relevant (in my opinion) to mention that Julius Caesar reorganized the provinces and his provisions had a definite influence on the organization of the Roman Empire: Caesar increased the number of provinces from 10 to 18; he confirmed as provinces the administrative entities that the senate had created (Bithynia, Creta et Cyrenae and Syria), and he established the provinces of Achaia, Illyria, Africa Nova and Africa Vetus and the conquered Gallia Comata. He strongly promoted settlements of veterans in the provinces and gave the opportunity to the city proletariat to own land in the provinces. Many communities that had shrunk as a consequence of the civil wars, received newcomers and the romanization in the conquered territories had a strong impulse. Some were awarded the Ius Latii, which was a crucial complement for merging with the sons of Rome and Italy.</p><p>The incorporation of provincials, in particular from Gallia, Germania and Iberia, into Roman units where they served and fought together, shared honors with the Roman-Italic legionaries, and of course the unifying bond towards the &quot;Imperator&quot; that lead them to victory, opened the Romanization of the provinces into the already emerging imperial, roman-Hellenic civilization.</p><p>However, as far as I understand from the paper, it is not that Rome did everything to convert others to their way of thinking, but the integration (or merging) was bidirectional: the integration of Roman provinces and its inhabitants into the Roman empire and also how Rome was integrated into the provincial environment.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding your awesome coin, since in Asia as a senatorial province the senate was perceived as an important political and legislative instance, I agree with [USER=115059]@Dwarf[/USER] that it is the Senate as a young man, like the representation of the Senate shown on the Smyrna coin, and was minted not earlier than the time of Tiberius.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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