Which period of Roman history did the nineteenth-century British historian Edward Gibbon call "the happiest age" of mankind?
A) The Augustan Age
B) The period of the Five Good Emperors
C) The Age of Constantine
D) The Julio-Claudian dynasty
B) The period of the Five Good Emperors
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