HIS 277 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - God, Christianity, Pope
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Julius cesear defeated them in common day france. The celts then moved to the british isles: another ruler pushes them out of england and pushes them into modern day scotland, roman empire in the 3rd century ad, rome conquered 5000 km. This had the effect of pushing aside old roman elites in the senate and shifted power to military commanders. They were seizing power as all the emperors (19 of them in 50 yrs) were either murdered or killed off except for 1: to fix this the emperor diocletian divided the empire into 2 halves in 292. This failed and led to war: emperor constantine the great 306-337, he was the son of an emperor and when his father died he took over the western portion of the empire. He did not want to share power and began a campaign against his co emperor of the west.
