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Why did Diocletian divide the empire into two sections?

AThe Senate did not want him to have too much power.
BHe thought that dividing the empire would make it easier to rule.
CHe wanted to give the Christian minority a region of their own.
DLaws for one part of the empire did not work well in the other part.

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The answer is A.  After the glorious reign of the Pax Romana where great
emperors such as Marcus Aurelius, Hadrian and Trajan, Rome began to decline as
it was no large an empire to rule. He concentrated his efforts on the eastern
half of Rome and named a young officer Maximian emperor of the West.  Diocletian established his capital in
Nicomedia located near Byzantium.  Later
on, the Eastern Empire flourished by the Western Empire soon deteriorated.  Several barbarian tribes invaded the Western
Roman Empire and eventually it collapsed in 455 A.D.

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Answer: B. He thought that dividing the empire would make it easier to rule.

Diocletian was responsible for ending the Crisis of the Third Century. He divided the empire, and made himself the emperor of the Eastern Empire, while Maximian reigned in the Western Empire. He eventually appointed another two "junior" emperors. By dividing power in this way, he hoped the empire would be easier to manage. He also established the largest and most bureaucratic of Roman governments.

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