Practice question · Put in order
Order the empire’s long arc.
- Constantinople founded; the centre of gravity moves east
- Odoacer deposes the last western emperor
- Diocletian’s tetrarchy splits the command
- Caracalla extends citizenship to all free inhabitants
- Constantinople falls to the Ottomans
- The third-century crisis: barracks emperors and broken coinage
- Augustus establishes the principate after Actium
Hints
- The arc spans far longer than the western half alone.
- The final item is nearly fifteen centuries after the first.
Show the answer
- Augustus establishes the principate after Actium
- Caracalla extends citizenship to all free inhabitants
- The third-century crisis: barracks emperors and broken coinage
- Diocletian’s tetrarchy splits the command
- Constantinople founded; the centre of gravity moves east
- Odoacer deposes the last western emperor
- Constantinople falls to the Ottomans
Why
Almost fifteen centuries between the first item and the last, which is the strongest single argument that "decline and fall" is too small a box for whatever this was.
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