The end of this era ushered in a period of "<span>B. foreign wars," since the Pax Romana had been a period of relatively unprecedented peace and prosperity for Rome. </span>
The Pax Romana is a period when there were peace and stability across the Roman Empire that lasted for over one hundred and fifty years. The end of this era ushered in a period of great instability, where there were civil wars leading to the division of the empire, political conspiracies leading to in many senators been assassinated and provincial and slave rebellions.
Well the first English settlement was really Roanoke, however it was not successful. The first successful one would be the new Virginia colony, later known as Jamestown;)