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The comment is in reference to the generally held height of Ancient Rome being ~100 AD. Afterward, largely 2nd order downward. This Wikipedia gif illustrates.
by araes 3y ago
The comment is in reference to the generally held height of Ancient Rome being ~100 AD. Afterward, largely 2nd order downward. This Wikipedia gif illustrates. [1]
The crisis article and late antiquity articles note:
> The crisis resulted in such profound changes in the empire's institutions, society, economic life, and religion that it is increasingly seen by most historians as defining the transition between the historical periods of classical antiquity and late antiquity.
> Diocletian (Emp: 284 AD), who began the custom of splitting the Empire into Eastern and Western portions ruled by multiple emperors simultaneously.
The Roman Empire was effectively broken, and mostly just oscillated until the final West-East break. It was already "customarily" split in two by 284 AD.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire#/media/File:Romempgif.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire#/media/File:Romem...
- crop_rotation 3y agoThis is just incorrect and the empire had multiple multi dedade solo emperors post Diocletien, including Constantine and Theodosius. > The comment is in reference to the generally held height of Ancient Rome being ~100 AD The height of an empire has no bearing on it's existence. Otherwise one could shorten each empire's existence to it's golden decade.
- mmanfrin 3y agoOf the many end dates people debate as the end of the empire, 284CE is not one of them.
- sheepshear 3y agoI think it's fair to call it the transition from Empire to Tetrarchy. Like how we distinguish between the Roman Kingdom, Republic, and Empire.