- 23 May 2024 15:14
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The Roman Empire split into three parts during the Crisis of the Third Century. Reuniting these three parts gave it another two centuries of life. The imperial overstretch happened much earlier, during the first century BC. By the third century AD, it was too late; they had to hang on to that territory.
JohnRawls wrote:Weird of you to post this, you always argued that incorporation of vast lands beyond the Mediterranean and barbaric tribes in to Rome strengthened it at the needed time giving it couple more centuries while it was my argument that going beyond Mediterranean overstretched it and hastened the fall.
The Roman Empire split into three parts during the Crisis of the Third Century. Reuniting these three parts gave it another two centuries of life. The imperial overstretch happened much earlier, during the first century BC. By the third century AD, it was too late; they had to hang on to that territory.
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