Title: The Fall of The Roman Empire
Headings: The Fall of The Roman Empire
The Fall of The Roman Empire
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Content: The Roman army also argued over who should be emperor - when an area succeeded in putting forward one of their own men, another area would oppose them to have one of their men instead. Between AD 211 and 284 there were 23 ‘soldier-emperors’, 20 of whom were killed by their rivals. So in AD 284 the emperor Diocletian made a decision to divide the Roman Empire in half to stop it from disintegrating - this led to the eastern and western Empire with their own leaders. More military defences also had to be built across the whole empire which would cost extra money that Rome did not have. So to pay for these, taxes were increased and extra coins minted which led to an increase in prices. Constantine became emperor in AD 307 until AD 337 - he was considered a strong ruler and was also the first Christian emperor. Constantine felt that Rome was too far away from necessary areas of the empire to be much value from a government’s opinion. So he moved the empire’s capital to a new city named Constantinople, which was built on the old city of Byzantium. Constantine had not made a good decision by doing this as his new city was much further east than Rome in the eastern empire. So the western empire was left vulnerable, and was attacked via the eastern empire through different tribes.