BIOL 1902 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Crisis Of The Third Century, Romulus Augustulus, Diocletian

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Comes to power at the end of the third century crisis through the military occupation of romw. Creates the tetrarchy, the four emperors who rule rome. The tetrarchy was an method of splitting the massive roman empire into smaller more manageable pieces, with 4 emperors. Two of the emperors are the augusti, the main leaders of the east and west, and the other two are the caesari, the emperors in training. The first augusti were diocletian and maximian while the caesari were galerius and. When diocletian and maximian pass, the caesari become augusti and the new caesari , Shortly after the change in power, when constantinus dies, instead of pledging allegiance to the. Caesari, they pledge allegiance to his son, constantine. Maximian"s son, is not happy with being left out. In the end they cause the tetrarchy to end and constantine, using his father(cid:859)s army, gains total control over rome. Is the last emperor with absolute power over rome.

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