Question

Explain the fracturing of Imperial Rome. How and why did Rome transform from a unified empire to a group of fractured states in the West, and the Byzantine Empire in the East?

Answer 1

Imperial Rome is the period of the Roman Reign from 27 B.C. to A.D. 476. Romulus was the last Roman emperors who was defeated by the Odoacer, the first Barbarian to ruler in Rome. The primary reason for the fracturing of imperial is because of the divisions created between the eastern and western part of Rome. Augustus did rearranged the city and secured its frontiers. By A.D. 96 the Nervan-Antonin Dynasty started the empire’s development again. Some of these leaders were Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and Marcus Aurelius. However, it is the vastness of the whole empire that become difficult to control from Rome. This made the emperor Diocletian to take the decision of dividing the city into western and eastern parts. He also decided to move the imperial capital from Rome to the site of Byzantium in the east.  Once he moved the capital, war began to take place in the city.  The Western Empire collapsed in A.D. 476 but the Eastern Empire continued on as the Byzantine region until the city collapsed.