CIVILIZATION
ROMAN
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Question
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He was too weak a ruler to make people obey his new laws.
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He built forts in the wrong places, and the Barbarians were able to cross the Roman borders and attack Rome.
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He used local tax collectors to collect taxes from the people.
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He declared himself Tyrant.
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Detailed explanation-1: -From all of his reforms, Diocletian was able to identify one fundamental problem with the Roman Empire, something previous emperors refused to acknowledge. It was simply too big. A single person could not control the infrastructure needed to maintain the vast empire.
Detailed explanation-2: -One of the main issues Diocletian faced was that the Roman government was struggling to run such a large empire. In response to that, Diocletian created the Tetrarchy system where he split the empire into two. Each half of the empire received its own emperor (augustus) and a co-emperor (caesar) to assist in governing.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.