Why did Diocletian divide the roman empire in two parts?

Answer 1

Diocletian thought Rome was to big for one man to rule. His solution was to split the city into an eastern half and a western half, with each side having its own ruler.

Rome kept on being attacked by Germanic invaders. They were losing money so Diocletian decided to split it so the Eastern half of Rome could thrive while the Western fell to the invaders. In the end it worked really well. The Byzantium (East Rome) lasted 1000 years longer than the Western Rome.

Answer 2

Diocletian did not divide the Roman Empire. That was constantine. He did it so he could have more power.

Constantine I did not divide the empire either. No emperor decided to divide the empire. The empire was considered as a sole empire.

The Eastern and Western Empires have been considered by historians to have become divided at the death of Theodosius I iwho was sole emperor in 395 . He nominated his two sons as emperor of the west (Honorius) and east (Arcadius). The empire became divided because with these two young and ineffective emperors politicians in the west and east conspired against each other and, especially, because the west started to crumble under the weight of the Gemanic invasions.

Diocletian created a co-emperorship, with Maximinan in the west and himself in the east and with two junior emperors (one in the east and one in the east) to preside over areas whose frontiers were vulnerable to attacks form outside the empire.

Answer 3

Diocletian did not split the Roman Empire in two.

Diocletian created the tetrarchy (rule by four) and subdivided the Empire into four main administrative units, the praetorian prefectures. He appointed fellow general Maximian as co-emperor in 285. Maximian took overall control of the western part of the empire, while Diocletian took overall control of the eastern part. Then these two men became senior emperors (Augusti) with the creation, in 293, of two junior emperors (Caesars) who were subordinates of the Augusti. The Caesars Constantius and Galerius.. One of the tasks of the Caesars was to defend the troubled frontiers along the rivers Rhine and Danube respectively, which had been under constant attack from outside the empire.

.Diocletian also created four praetorian prefectures. Each one was headed by one of the four emperors. Galliae (Gaul, Britannia and Hispania), was headed by Constantius; Italia et Africa (Italy, Switzerland and north-western Africa) was headed by Maximian; Illyricum (the Balkan Peninsula except for Thracia, in modern eastern Bulgaria) was headed by Galerius; and Oriens (Thracia, the Roman territories in Asia, Egypt and eastern Libya) was headed by Diocletian. Galliae and Italia et Africa were in the west. Illyricum and Oriens were in the east. These were administrative subdivisions. Diocletian stressed that the four praetorian prefectures were administrative units and that the empire was indivisible.

Diocletian also created imperial capitals (or better imperial seats), one for each emperor: Milan (in northern Italy, for Italia et Africa) Nicomedia (in north-western Turkey, for Oriens) Augusta Trevorum (Triers in Germany near the river Rhine, for Galliae) and Sirmium (near Belgrade on the river Danube, for Illyricum).

This reform had several aims:

1) The bad experience of recent sole emperors suggested to Diocletian that sole emperors were vulnerable and that co-emperorship made power more secure.

2) Diocletian could not create an informal co-emperorship with a son as previous emperors had done because he was hairless; he had a daughter and no sons. Therefore, he needed a trusted co-ruler from outside the family and had to create a formal co-emperorship

3) There was a need to improve imperial control over the empire. There had been conflict between powerful men many provinces of the empire and also attempts at usurpation in some areas. Diocletian shared controlling the provinces with three men.

4) There was also a need to improve the efficiency of the defence of the vast frontiers of the empire. He entrusted the defence of the most troubled tracts of the frontiers to the Caesars.

The tetrarchy begun to unravel after Diocletian and Maximian abdicated in 305 and eventually fell as the emperor started to fight each other over power and Constantine the Great emerged as sole emperor in 327.

Answer 4

Diolcetian did not divide the Roman Empire into two halves. He created the tetrarchy (rule by four) and subdivided the Empire into four main administrative units, the praetorian prefectures. He appointed fellow general Maximian as co-emperor in 285. Maximian took overall control of the western part of the empire, while Diocletian took overall control of the eastern part. Then these two men became senior emperors (Augusti) with the creation, in 293, of two junior emperors (Caesars) who were subordinates of the Augusti. The Caesars Constantius and Galerius.. One of the tasks of the Caesars was to defend the troubled frontiers along the rivers Rhine and Danube respectively, which had been under constant attack from outside the empire.

Each of the four emperors headed one of the four praetorian prefectures. Galliae (Gaul, Britannia and Hispania), was headed by Constantius; Italia et Africa (Italy, Switzerland and north-western Africa) was headed by Maximian; Illyricum (the Balkan Peninsula except for Thracia, in modern eastern Bulgaria) was headed by Galerius; and Oriens (Thracia, the Roman territories in Asia, Egypt and eastern Libya) was headed by Diocletian. Galliae and Italia et Africa were in the west. Illyricum and Oriens were in the east. These were administrative subdivisions. Diocletian stressed that the four praetorian prefectures were administrative units and that the empire was indivisible.

Diocletian also created imperial capitals (or better imperial seats), one for each emperor: Milan (in northern Italy, for Italia et Africa) Nicomedia (in north-western Turkey, for Oriens) Augusta Trevorum (Triers in Germany near the river Rhine, for Galliae) and Sirmium (near Belgrade on the river Danube, for Illyricum).

Answer 5

Diocletian never split the Roman empire into two parts. He divided it into four parts called the tetrarchy. The reason for this was to try and make the empire easier to manage and rule.

Answer 6

He didn't. Diocletian divided the empire into four parts with two Caesars and two Augustii.

Answer 7

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