HIST 1061 Lecture 37: 3rd Century Crisis
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After the fall of the severan dynasty, there was extreme bloodshed and turmoil in rome known as the 3rd century crisis. There were 25 emperors in a span of 50 years, most were assassinated, nobody wanted to be emperor during this time. The north decides to attack and (cid:271)egi(cid:374)s pi(cid:272)ki(cid:374)g at ro(cid:373)e"s (cid:271)ou(cid:374)da(cid:396)ies. The only emperor during this time with slight success was gallienus. He attempted to bring back some stability to rome but he died of an illness at a young age and had no successor. The boundaries continued to rapidly shrink as rome spun into a free fall. The sasaninian empire (cid:271)ega(cid:374) to g(cid:396)o(cid:449) a(cid:374)d (cid:449)iped out the pa(cid:396)thia(cid:374)s addi(cid:374)g to ro(cid:373)e"s lau(cid:374)d(cid:396)(cid:455) list of p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373)s. the(cid:455) began encroaching on roman territory. Trajan made it illegal to hunt down christians unless they were opposing the empire. Christians (cid:271)e(cid:272)a(cid:373)e the s(cid:272)ape goat fo(cid:396) ro(cid:373)e"s p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373)s. the(cid:374), a plague st(cid:396)u(cid:272)k ro(cid:373)e a(cid:374)d it killed 5,000 people a da(cid:455).
