Constantine was one of the most significant of the Roman emperors, for the eventual outcomes of his policies.
Constantine's ruthless desire for unfettered rule and for his family to succeed him, reversed the progress that Diocletian might have made away from an autocratic form of government and perhaps ultimately towards democracy. Diocletian had created a formal power sharing arrangement, with two Augusti, or senior emperors, and two Caesars, or minor emperors, with a defined progression from Caesar to Augustus, and election on merit not family lineage. Constantine gradually defeated his main imperial opponents until becoming undisputed ruler of the Roman Empire, and used the style of Diocletion's tetrarchy to ensure that his fmaily members succeeded him. There were to be no more attempts to move the empire towards responsible government.
Constantine is most well known for setting in train the process that made Christian domination of the Roman Empire inevitable. While it was beyond the ability of one man in a single lifetime to convert the citizens of the empire from devout faith in the pagan gods to Christianity, the process had become almost inevitable by the time of his death. He achieved this by giving the Christian Church state patronage, publicly repudiating his pagan responsibilities, and eventually by persecuting and plundering the pagan temples. Constantine created a culture that paganism had to be totally destroyed, which subsequent Christian leaders used to justify destroying the intellectual property of the empire, including all books that did not encourage the Christian faith. Without Constantine, Christianity might have remained a minor sect within the Roman Empire. The fact that Europe is seen today in terms of being Christian, is a legacy of Constantine.
Taxes had already been high in the time of Diocletian, but Constantine added not only the vast administrative machine, but extravagant building programmes which were needed for the new Christian faith, the construction of Constantinople, as well as his much commented on personal lavishness. In consequence, taxation had to be fixed at an extremely high level. Michael Grant (The Emperor Constantine) says that Constantine's crushing tax system ultimately defeated its own purpose, because it destroyed the very people who had to pay the taxes. His policies contributed largely to the failure of trade and agriculture, and caused widespread hostility to the state, an alienation which in turn played a part in the downfall of the western empire.
The pagan historian Zosimus ascribed the subsequent downfall of the westem empire to Constantine's reorganisation of the army, dividing its military strength into two unsatisfactory parts. Constantine appears to have deliberately picked a quarrel with the Persians, resulting in vast expenditure and loss of life under his successors.
the emperor in the time and years of 300 AD was Emperor Constantine
The Emperor Constantine the Great (also known as Constantine I).
The ancient Romans eventually became Christians under Emperor Constantine
Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire during his reign.
No, from the rule of the emperor Constantine, all Romans were Christians (Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire).
Many different times until Emperor Constantine became a Christian in 312 AD. One of the worst persecutions was around 202 AD under Emperor Septimus Severus
Romans first emperor was julius caesar
Christianity. Emperor Constantine in the council of Nicea in 352AD put together the bible while high on crack cocaine. This is why it doesn't make sense.
Constantine I. I think :)
Constantine
The Pope placed a crown on his head and proclaimed him "Emperor of the Romans".
The Romans converted to Christianity because the emperor Constantine had a dream the day before a battle and saw the holy cross. The next day Rome won the battle. Constantine therefore turned Christianity into Rome's official religion. The conversion to Christianity wasn't because Rome was coming to an end but simply because it spread so far and Constantine had that dream.