HI101 Lecture Notes - Diocletianic Persecution, Breadbasket, Elitism
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What to do with a broken empire: rome under diocletian and constantine. Rome before 500ad, why it fell, what this means (but why did rome last as long as it did?) Problems wih rome: communication (large) six weeks to get message across empire in good circumstances, defense (large borders), Major rivers danube, rhine, seine(seh-nay), loire (low-are). (not tested but useful: bureaucrats expensive, hard to supervise. **civitas (see-vi-taws) municipality city + area around it. Dependance on civitas causedtension between urban and provincial leaders, these existed before rome!! Tax evasion (responsibility to municipal council on taxes) If municipal taxes not collected they were responsible out of their pocket. Tension to municipal cuz no one wanted this job. Municipality must go to single person who owns twice as much land as a city ( no way to make pay) They challenged the government with local power bases. Daine and rhine many enemies on other side.
