CIVILIZATION
ROMAN
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Made people keep the same job for life
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Set prices to stop inflation
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Made treaties with the Huns to secure Roman borders
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Split the Empire in 2 parts
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Detailed explanation-1: -Diocletian sought to bring order into the economy by controlling wages and prices and by initiating a currency reform based upon a new gold piece, the aureus, struck at the rate of 60 to the pound of gold. The controls failed and the aureus vanished, to be succeeded by Constantine’s gold solidus.
Detailed explanation-2: -Diocletian created a new administrative system called the tetrarchy (rule by 4) and increased the # of provinces. He also instituted a policy that Romans had to worship the emperor and state gods and established minimum wage. Constantine stripped power from Roman senate and created extreme power for the emperor.
Detailed explanation-3: -What changes did Diocletian make to try to solve the Roman empire’s succession problem? Diocletian appointed junior emperors. They were meant to take power after senior emperors died/retired. This was to prevent civil wars, but it failed.