HISTORY
ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY
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It was a stable government ruled by one strong emperor.
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It was a period of instability with over 22 different emperors taking the throne.
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There was a revolution and Rome went from being a republic to being ruled by an emperor.
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It was an era of peace and nothing out of the ordinary happened.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The leaders most at risk were members of the Gordian dynasty, which lasted from 235 C.E. to 285 C.E. and saw 14 of 26 emperors assassinated. In addition to experiencing poor harvests and subsequently starving troops, The Economist notes that Gordian emperors faced plague, invasions and economic depression.
Detailed explanation-2: -Explanation: The Roman Empire was divided into an eastern half and a western half in 285 CE by the Emperor Diocletian. It was the Emperor Constantine in 330 CE, however, who moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium (Constantinople), in the Eastern Roman Empire.
Detailed explanation-3: -The crisis ended with Diocletian and his restructuring of Roman imperial government in 284.
Detailed explanation-4: -At some time in 285 at Mediolanum (Milan), Diocletian raised his fellow-officer Maximian to the office of Caesar, making him his effective co-ruler. The concept of dual rulership was not new to the Roman Empire.
Detailed explanation-5: -The emperor Diocletian decided to divide it into western and eastern halves in C.E. 285 to make managing the empire easier. Competition between the leaders of the halves emerged and resulted in civil war, which ultimately led the general Constantine to unify the empire under his own rule.