By splitting the Empire into four parts, under two emperors and two caesars, to make such a large area in a pre-electronic and pre-mechanical transport era, manageable.
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Romes geography, government, virtue, trade, building, and military all worked torward making it possibly the greatest empire ever.
There was no successor in the west besides a thing called the Holy Roman Empire which had nothing to do with ancient Rome. In the east it was the Ottoman empire.
No similarities. The Roman Empire was an ancient empire and the Carolingian Empire was a medieval one and therefore related to two totally different societies. The only thing was that Latin was the language of the church, bureaucrats and intellectuals.
Please clarify your question. The word "who" refers to a person, the word "empire" is a thing. Are you asking about an emperor or the size of the empire?
Diocletian was the last Roman emperor to rule the entire empire. He ordered the shared rulership upon his retirement.
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There was no such thing as a reign of terror in the Roman Empire
Diocletian did not need to save the Roman Empire. The empire had already been saved earlier by Aurelian who defeated various peoples who were invading it (the Goths, Vandals, Juthungi, Sarmatians, and Carpi) and reunited it by defeating two breakaway parts of the empire: Palmyrene Empire and the Gallic Empire. Diocletian realised that one man could not rule the Roman Empire on his own. There were conflicts in virtually every province of the empire. Therefore, he created what historians have called the tetrarchy (rule by four). In 285 he created a co-emperorship with himself in charge of the eastern part of the empire and his fellow general Maximian in charge of the western part. He designated Nicomedia (in north-western Turkey) as the imperial capital of the eastern part and Milan (in northern Italy) as the imperial capital of the western part. In 293 Diocletian appointed two junior emperors (Caesars) who were subordinates of the two senior ones (Augusti). Constantius was put in charge of Gaul (in the western part of the empire) and Galerius was put in charge European territories in the eastern part of the empire (the Balkan Peninsula). With this arrangement Diocletian was in Charge of the Roman territories in Asia and Egypt and eastern Libya and Maximian was in charge of Italy, Spain and Portugal and north-western Africa. The task of the two junior emperors was to defend the most troubled parts of the Roman frontiers: the river Rhine in the west and the river Danube in the east. Augusta Trevorum (Triers) in Gaul and Sirmium (Sremska Mitrovica) in Serbia were also designated as imperial capitals as the seats of the two Caesars.
Romes geography, government, virtue, trade, building, and military all worked torward making it possibly the greatest empire ever.
There was no successor in the west besides a thing called the Holy Roman Empire which had nothing to do with ancient Rome. In the east it was the Ottoman empire.
No similarities. The Roman Empire was an ancient empire and the Carolingian Empire was a medieval one and therefore related to two totally different societies. The only thing was that Latin was the language of the church, bureaucrats and intellectuals.
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When the emperor died he had two sons. Because when a man died, his belongings would go to his sons, the empire was divided in two halves. Each son of the roman emperor got a halve of the empire. If he would have had 3 sons, it would have been divided in 3 parts.
Please clarify your question. The word "who" refers to a person, the word "empire" is a thing. Are you asking about an emperor or the size of the empire?
The most important thing that the government did to unify the Roman empire was to have one system or code of laws for everyone. The granting of Roman citizenship and the protection of the army were also unifying factors.
There was not such a thing as 5 major territories controlled by Rome. The Roman Empire was subdivided into provinces. By the end of the Roman Republic the Empire had 16 provinces. By the end of the reign of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, there were 28 provinces. Under the reign of Claudius there were 36. Under Marcus Aurelius there were 44. By 214 A.D. there were 48. Under Aurelian (who gave up Dacia) there were 46. In the late third century Diocletian reorganised the provinces. He reduced their sizes and doubled them.