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Bureaucratic affairs were completed during Diocletian's stay: [144] a census took place, and Alexandria, in punishment for its rebellion, lost the ability to mint independently. [145] Diocletian's reforms in the region, combined with those of Septimius Severus, brought Egyptian administrative practices much closer to Roman standards. [146]
Diocletian, by contrast, was willing to reform every aspect of public life to satisfy his goals. Under his rule, coinage, taxation, architecture, law and history were all radically reconstructed to reflect his authoritarian and traditionalist ideology.
Roman emperor Diocletian, who framed the constitution of the Tetrarchy. Under Diocletian's new constitution, power was shared between two emperors called Augusti.The establishment of two co-equal Augusti marked a rebirth of the old republican principle of collegiality, as all laws, decrees, and appointments that came from one of the Augusti, were to be recognized as coming from both conjointly.
Diocletian's specific reforms were less radical than was the reality that he exposed the state of government for what it had been for centuries: monarchy. [1] With Diocletian's reforms the Principate was abolished, and a new system, the Dominate (Latin: "lord" or "master"), was established.
Diocletian marched to Illyricum to fight Carus' elder son, Carinus, but Carinus was assassinated by one of his own retainers in the Battle of the Margus. [7] Diocletian, who had no son, made a Pannonian officer Maximian his co-ruler, first as Caesar in 285, then as junior Augustus in 286. The power-sharing agreement proved durable, with ...
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Diocletian's reforms, including the establishment of the tetrarchy, aimed to address the vastness of the empire and internal instability. [1] The rise of Christianity, legalized by Constantine in 313 CE, profoundly changed the religious landscape, becoming a central force in Roman life.
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