Trajectories In The Roman Empire

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The Roman Empire has been through many of changes in its time as an empire. As well as evolutions that changed the way it was ran as and who it ran. The Roman Empire which was the East and West went through a series of evolutions that changed the Empire for the good and for the worse. During the third and fifth century’s there were trajectories the played a huge role in the evolution of the Roman Empire regions in the East and the West. Subsequently, I will be describing the principle factors that caused those trajectories in the Roman Empire. As the Romans were seeking to expand the republic, the Romans had reached a point in its central government where Rome couldn’t rule the provinces that were distant from the central interior of Rome. Due to the fact the Rome was vast and communication and transportation was problematic well trying to spread news of natural disasters, epidemics, out breaks, invasions and revolts. Which also resulted in too much time for the news to reach the outer …show more content…

That almost brought the Roman Empire to a collapse along with the pressures of plague, economic depression, civil war and invasion. In the years 284-305 the competition from ambitious generals and so called emperors were responsible for the third century political crisis. Emperor Diocletian temporally restored political stability throughout the Roman Empire. Diocletian also recognized the administration and appointed a co-emperor along with two assistants and later regained the Roman Empires social stability that was proved more difficult to obtain. This was due to the Christians that were polytheistic followers. It was the polytheistic cults that believed it was divine anger that caused the crisis. Diocletian was the one to convince his co-rulers that they needed to persecute the Christians, who he believed were the ones to

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