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askoha stoped expanding his empire in 269 B.C.E to 232 B.C.E.
The Roman empire stopped expanding during the reign of Hadrian, for the most part. Although Hadrian consolidated the borders, there were small incursions into places up North such as Wales and Scotland, but no major territories were added to the empire.
The Ottoman Empire's military defeats in the Second Siege of Vienna and the naval Battle of Lepanto prevented further Ottoman expansion.
They did not stop. What happened was that the Roman empire was sacked and destroyed and split up.
In 395 the Roman empire split into two pieces: the west and the east. Rome and Italy were part of the west and Greece was part of the east.
The Church began suffering its own internal problems, and could no longer afford the funds, resources and time to govern the Roman empire besides its own.
Diocletian.
To stop the Roman empire's army from killing them. Masada is a hill fort.
Emperor Diocletian
The dissatisfaction of his troops. He had several near mutinies because his men wanted to get back home as they had been away for so long.
Christianity could be considered to be the heir to the Roman empire because after the fall of the west, it was the single unifying force. Christianity did not stop wars nor did it erase ethnic prejudices, but it was the one common thread running through Europe, just as the Roman empire was the common binder of Europe.
Nativists is the ones that was willing to do anything to make the US from expanding. The Nativists is a group.