The Roman Empire From Severus To Constantine ❲SECURE · 2024❳

For fifty years, the Roman Empire was a revolving door of "Barracks Emperors"—generals who were declared emperors by their troops only to be murdered months later. The empire faced a "perfect storm" of disasters:

Constantine legalized Christianity, moving it from a persecuted cult to the favored religion of the state. The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine

By the time of Constantine’s death in 337 AD, the Roman Empire was unrecognizable from the one Severus had inherited. The Mediterranean world had shifted from a pagan, Rome-centered principate to a Christian, East-leaning autocracy. This "Late Antiquity" set the stage for the Byzantine Empire in the East and the eventual rise of medieval Europe in the West. For fifty years, the Roman Empire was a

The empire physically broke apart into three pieces: the Gallic Empire in the west, the Palmyrene Empire in the east, and the Roman core. Diocletian and the Tetrarchy (284–305 AD) The Mediterranean world had shifted from a pagan,

The Cyprian Plague decimated the workforce and the army.

Recognizing that the empire’s wealth and threats were now in the East, he moved the capital to Byzantium, renaming it "New Rome" (Constantinople). Conclusion