Roman Empire: Division Into The East And The West

At the height of its power, Rome controlled the greatest empire ever seen in Europe at that time. Many of the conquered nations benefited from Rome. Roman public baths, roads, water supplies, all appeared in Western Europe. The sheer size of the empire was a major reason for the collapse of Rome. In AD 284, the Emperor Diocletian divided the Roman Empire in two parts to make it easier to rule. He created the Western Empire and the Eastern Empire, each with its own leader. Diocletian faced more than just administrative problems. More and

With the vast landscapes and diverse cultures that the Roman Empire ruled over, a strong political strategy had to be in place to maintain such a vast and diverse empire. The Roman Empire was made up of many self governing provinces that reported ultimately to Rome. The structure of these provinces was not of military control but of civil law. Governors were appointed to a limited term to govern the provinces (Lendering). Their terms were most likely limited in order to ensure provinces would not be inclined to break away from the empire. In order to ensure that a province would not become too large and powerful the Romans would split up large provinces into smaller elements. Although the Romans had an Emperor his position was not that of uncontested power. Much like the United States of today, the Roman government was broken into three branches. These were executive, judicial and legislative. The Romans enacted this policy to ensure that no one man could create all of the laws that govern the empire (UNRV History).

Roman expansion had a great impact on the development of the Roman society economically, socially, and politically. There were influential changes that led to domestic problems and eventually, the ruining of the society itself. As Roman expansion occurred, there was a dramatic increase in wealth and slavery that created greater social distinctions between the rich and poor, eventually leading to revolts within the state and it’s downfall.

The Roman Realm, at its stature (c. 117 CE), was the most broad political and social structure in western progress. By 285 CE the domain had become too immeasurable to ever be ruled from the focal government at Rome as was partitioned by Head Diocletian into a Western and an Eastern Realm. The Roman Domain started when Augustus Caesar turned into the primary ruler of Rome (31 BCE) and finished, in the west, when the last Roman sovereign, Romulus Augustulus, was ousted by the Germanic Lord Odoacer (476 CE). In the east, it proceeded as the Byzantine Domain until the demise of Constantine XI and the fall of Constantinople to the Stool Turks in 1453 CE. The impact of the Roman Domain on western progress was significant in its enduring commitments

The Byzantine Empire had many great leaders. For instance, the emperor, Justinian, wanted to revive the Roman Empire and attempted to take back the entire former empire. During his reign, Byzantine reached its maximum territorial extent. Justinian also created a new law code, the Justinian Code, that was arguably more fair than the Twelve Table of Rome. The Western Roman Empire, on the contrary, was at first split into many small territories, each led by a warlord. The empire lacked unity, order, and stability. But later on, similarly to the Byzantine emperors, rulers of the nations formed after the division of the Western Roman Empire, such as Clovis I, Charles Martel, Pepin the Short, Charlemagne, and many others accomplished many feats that made the empire greater. These emperors helped bring Christianity and stability to Europe. Charlemagne, in particular, was named the Holy Roman Emperor by the pope and he also spread Christianity by sword point. During this time period, there were advancements in education and economy and the governing system, feudalism, brought order. Thus both halves of the Roman Empire had righteous rulers that helped the empires come back from and thrive after the collapse of the Roman

The negative effects of the Roman conquest, are certainly numerous and profound. Rome had disrupted, and in some instances cut short a cultural development of the entire societies that were at a significantly higher social standing than the conqueror. The process of Romanization certainly was not exclusively a triumph of superior civilization over a savage westerners, and decadent Orientals.

After the Roman Empire began to weaken, it finally split into two parts. A Roman emperor ruled the western portion from Rome, and a Byzantine emperor ruled the eastern portion from the city of Constantinople. Eventually, the barbarian tribes took control of many of the Roman cities, and the western half of the empire surrendered to barbarian control. As time went on the western half of the empire collapsed. Eventually, the barbarians even took much of the eastern half of the Byzantine empire, until the Byzantine Emperor only controlled a small portion of land surrounding the capital city of Constantinople.

Diocletian was a cavalry officer from the Roman province of Dalmatia. He made some changes to revitalize Rome. When he took over the control, he realized that Rome is a complex state that could not be governed from one place by one centralized bureaucracy. Therefore, he appointed an officer, Maximian as co-emperor, and divided the empire into western and eastern. Diocletian gave Maximian the power to rule western and kept wealthier eastern for himself. They later were concerning of succession, Diocletian and Maximian adopted two trusted generals as sons, and they appointed them as junior emperors which led four men to govern each quarter of the empire. By four people governing the empire, it responded to imperial administration challenges and

Rome was originally sacked by the King of the Visigoths on August 24th of the 410, but didn’t completely get wiped out till 1453 when Syracuse collapsed. The sacking of Rome was the biggest shocker of the world, the world saw this as the greatest Empire the world has ever seen was destroyed by a group of Barbarians like the Visigoths. After the collapse, the Roman Empire influence still lived on throughout the world especially when it came to the religion. For Christianity being its primary religion the spread of Christianity throughout the countries that it controlled was a major religious influence the world has ever seen. This was one of the biggest influences the world has seen because it led to the Great Crusades against the Muslims. Some other influences that the world saw from the collapse of the Roman empire was that after the initial fall the first Barbarian King of Rome was elected which was Odovacar, who was the first of many different kings and princes to rule of the vast different regions of the old Roman Empire. The fall of the Roman Empire quickly thrusted the world into the Dark Ages and it definitely took the world centuries for it to recover.

Diocletian made the Tetrarchy, an arrangement of political reorganization that isolated the Roman Empire into two parts, east, and west. Diocletian managed the East half, while his associate who he titled Augustus governed the West. Diocletian and Augustus each had a man under them to help run things these men were titled caesars. At that point, Diocletian split the two parts into prefectures, represented by regents who were controlled without anyone else or Augustus. These political changes balanced out the Roman Empire and end a time of turmoil.

The Roman Empire was a one of worlds greatest empires. Their ideas and contributions to today's education system is phenomenal. They adopted the culture of Ancient Greece, but their empire was based on military power and Roman laws. They spread their languages, culture, and architecture. All of the many emperors has great impacts on the rising empire.

It is a good post. You mentioned that there were two significant reasons that ruined the empire, and it made it split into two survive in the East. In addition to this, I would like to add the negative influence of economy in the Roman Empire. I can argue that over expansion would hit the economy in the spot, but it did not hit it suddenly, and the virus of the economic hardship spread itself into the empire centuries by centuries. The consuls and the emperors were aware of it, but their precautions were not able to make the empire survive forever.

The Roman Empire was by all means one of the pivotal points of the upbringing of Western Civilization. From the Romans, we have gained a basis of understanding for political leadership, literature, spirituality, language, philosophical notions and cultural ideology. Two prominent and wide concepts that have greatly influenced Western society have been Rome’s law structure, the dispersion of Christianity, and the language of Latin. Mainly, Societies did not inherently follow the beliefs of the Roman legal system but rather a simplified set of virtues or an individual idea based from it.

The final centuries of the Western Roman Empire are remembered as some of the most tumultuous years in European history. What was once the mightiest state in the world bent beneath a myriad of tribal raids, economic failure and internal fragmentation. It is not in any way universally accepted by historians that it was solely the incursions of these so-called ‘barbarian’ tribes which saw the West ultimately crushed yet miraculously allowed the Eastern half of the empire to survive another millennium, in fact this outcome was probably due to a variety of factors. Yet it is clear the migration-fuelled assaults on the Roman world in the late 4th and 5th centuries had a far more devastating impact on the western provinces than those in the east. This essay will evaluate three key factors which explain to some extent the disparaging destinies between East and West Rome. Firstly, the slumping of the western economy in comparison with the Eastern Empire. Secondly, the internal strife which saw the west devolve into civil war and disjunction, weakening it to barbarian hostility. And finally, the external pressure as faced by both sides of the empire, as a succession of peoples from outside imperial Europe sought entry into the empire – peaceably or otherwise. It is likely a combination of all these elements as well as many others that led to the eventual usurpation of the old Roman heartlands by barbaric successor kingdoms.

During the Classical era, the Roman empire expanded its territory throughout the Mediterranean, much like other Classical era societies. However, the expansion of Classical era societies played a part in their eventual falls. In a similar manner to other Classical era societies, expansion had a largely negative effect on Roman empire and set up for its eventual fall near the end of the Classical era.