Pax Romana.

At least at first they got to go from literally living in mud huts (look up wattle and daub) to having actual state of the art infrastructure and an economic link to a massive empire. Most were VERY happy for the sudden, massive increase in their standards of living.

It was much later when everybody was used to the improvements, knew how to build it for themselves, and the Empire became predatory with its taxes as it increasingly leaned on the provinces to fund its own corruption that the resentment started to build.

Fair point, unrest will be present in the newly conquered areas.. but law and order, roads, aqueducts etc may well be looked on enviously by those who have none. Until things started going to shit with the empire anyways. As the saying goes, what have the romans ever done for us!

Worth watching by the way, is 'The Truth About The Fall Of Rome'.. plenty of parallels to what we are seeing today all over the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGYVWrjRMXU

Made by a guy who got booted from youtube (the above one is the video re-housed on a different channel), and whose main channel is now on bitchute at https://www.bitchute.com/channel/freedomainradio/