When the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus, all wars had stopped on earth—we refer to that long period of time as Emperor Augustus' Pax Romana.
It was precisely during those years that the Jewish people expected their mysterious Messiah—one of his names was the Prince of Peace—to be born, according to Daniel’s prophecy of the 70 weeks and the Talmud that had foretold that the Messiah was to come when the world had stopped fighting.
And the prophecy did come to pass during the reign of Augustus and the Pax Romana: an unprecedented truce of 25 years, during which time the Prince of Peace appeared on this earth!