The Failure Of Rome's Struggling Roman System

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In hindsight what didn’t help this struggling Roman system was the split that occurred between the East and West in 285 AD. The ruler at that time, Emperor Diocletian realised that the Empire had grown so vast it was infeasible to govern all its provinces from one seat of power in Rome. Therefore, he split the empire in two, with the Eastern Empire governed out of Byzantium (later Constantinople) and the Western Empire governed from Rome. This split however, was not necessarily healthy for the West. It bore the fruit of disaster and some historians have argued this is the point from which the Empire really began to decline leading to the subtle fall in the West. This split caused this as it left the West in a relatively weak position. For in