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Content: Realizing that the empire may be too large to control the Emperor Diocletian divided the Empire in the late third century. The city of Milan was the center of the West and Byzantium, which was later known, as Constantinople was the center of the East. The short-term results were good. It definitely made the empire easier to govern, but over time the two halves stopped working together. East and West failed at fighting off their outside threats, and began to disagree over the use of resources and military aid. The divide was clear as the Eastern Empire gained wealth and the West fell deeper into economic disaster. This was important to the fall because the power of the Eastern Empire helped to direct the Barbarian invasions to the West and while Constantinople in the east was well fortified, the city of Rome was left exposed to attack (Andrews, 1). Rome’s problems not only stemmed from the size of their empire, but from their unsuccessful leadership. Rome had difficulty keeping an emperor because in the second and third centuries it almost became comparable to a death sentence (Andrews, 1). In just 75 years over 20 men took the throne.