HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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withdrew armies from many of its borders, effectively shrinking the empire to a manageable size.
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divided it into four units, each with its own ruler.
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handed over power to the people, giving them control of the military for the first time.
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divided it in half and appointed Zeno as a ruler with equal power.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A form of government in which power is divided between four individuals. In ancient Rome, a system of government instituted by Diocletian that split power between two rulers in the east, and two rulers in the west.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Empire had become too large to rule effectively. The outer provinces were pretty much doing whatever they wanted. Emperor Diocletian was looking for a way to fix this and other problems. He decided that the only thing to do was to actually break the empire into two pieces.
Detailed explanation-3: -Diocletian (ca. 245-311 CE) was a Roman Emperor whose government and economic reforms helped Rome recover from the Crisis of the Third Century. Reigning from 285 to 305 CE, Diocletian split the Roman Empire in half and established the Tetrarchy, where he shared rule with three co-emperors.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 285 AD, Emperor Diocletian decided that the Roman Empire was too big to manage. He divided the Empire into two parts, the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire. Over the next hundred years or so, Rome would be reunited, split into three parts, and split in two again.
Detailed explanation-5: -Diocletian separated and enlarged the empire’s civil and military services and reorganized the empire’s provincial divisions, establishing the largest and most bureaucratic government in the history of the empire.