- emperor diocletian splits the empire into two halves because the whole area is too difficult to govern- constantine comes through and reunites both eastern and western halves but both him and diocletian fail at trying to save them empire- the western roman empire was no longer dominant and the army has no more money which causes them to fall apart along with the empire- as western rome gradually got weaker, it became susceptible to plunder- the eastern empire, however, flourished and later becomes byzantine empire once the west completely crumbles

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