HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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The Byzantine Empire
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Constantinople
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New Rome
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Saudi Arabia
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Detailed explanation-1: -Even though the Western Roman Empire, which was centered around Rome, collapsed, the Eastern Roman Empire survived as the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine Empire lasted for a millennium after the fall of the Roman Empire, ending with the Ottoman conquests in 1453.
Detailed explanation-2: -In fact, after the western part of the Roman Empire fell, the eastern half continued to exist as the Byzantine Empire for hundreds of years.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Emperor Flavius Theodosius Divides the Roman Empire into Eastern and Western Halves.
Detailed explanation-5: -Diocletian was the first emperor to divide the Roman Empire into a Tetrarchy. In 286 he elevated Maximian to the rank of Augustus (emperor) and gave him control of the Western Empire while he himself ruled the East.