Empire: Tetrarchy, Constantine, and Fall Flashcards
Give the years of Diolcetian’s reign.
284-305 AD
Give the years of Constantine’s reign.
306-337 AD
What Dalmatian peasant rises to the imperial throne in 284 AD and ends the period of Barracks emperors?
Diocletian
What system of government, in which the Empire is ruled by four people, was instituted by Diocletian?
Tetrarchy
Who instituted the Tetrarchy, a system of government in which the Roman Empire is ruled by four people?
Diocletian
Name the four members of the original Tetrarchy.
Diocletian, Galerius, Maximian, Constantius Chlorus
In the Tetrarchy, what titles are given to the men who rule?
Augustus (leader)
Caesar (2nd in command)
In the original Tetrarchy, who was the Augustus in the East?
Diocletian
In the original Tetrarchy, who was the Caesar in the East?
Galerius
In the original Tetrarchy, who was the Augustus in the West?
Maximian
In the original Tetrarchy, who was the Caesar in the West?
Constantius Chlorus
What late emperor is known as the apostate since he tried to restore paganism throughout the empire?
Julian
What son of one of the original Tetrarchs rose to the imperial throne in 306 AD?
Constantine
What emperor established both is own baths and the Edict On Maximum Prices?
Diocletian
Who issues the Edict of Milan, legalizing Christianity across the whole empire?
Constantine
Whom does Constantine defeat in 324 AD to become emperor of the whole empire?
Licinius
To what city in Croatia do Diocletian and Maximian retire?
Salona/Split
What tribe crushed the Romans at Adrianople in 378 AD leading to the death of the emperor Valens?
Ostrogoths
Which of the sons of Theodosius I ruled in the east?
Arcadius
What emperor defeats Maxentius at the battle of Milvian Bridge in 312 AD?
Constantine
What emperor made Christianity the official state religion of the empire?
Theodosius I
Who was the last Roman emperor in the west?
Romulus Augustulus
In what year was Romulus Augustulus deposed in the west?
476 AD
What two men jointly abdicate the throne in 305 AD and retire to Salona in Croatia?
Diocletian and Maximian
What emperor, named after both Rome’s first king and first emperor, was deposed by the German king Odoacer in 476 AD?
Romulus Augustulus
Who is the first emperor to convert to Christianity, which he does on his death bed?
Constantine
Who was the last emperor to rule a united Roman empire before splitting the empire between his sons Arcadius and Honorius?
Theodosius I
What city became the new capital of the Empire in 330 AD?
Constantinople (formely Byzantium)
At what battle in 312 AD does Constantine defeat Maxentius?
Milvian Bridge
At what battle in 378 AD was Valens killed by the Ostrogoths?
Adrianople
What German king deposed Romulus in September 476?
Odoacer
What edict passed by Constantine legalized Christianity across the whole empire?
Edict of Milan
What father of Romulus Augustulus placed him on the throne in 475 AD?
Orestes
What late emperor was killed at the Battle of Adrianople in 378 at the hands of the Ostrogoths?
Valens
Whom does Constantine defeat at the battle of Milvian Bridge in 312 AD?
Maxentius
Who sees a cross and the words “in hoc signo vinces” (in this sign you will conquer) before the battle of the Milvian Bridge?
Constantine
Translate in hoc signo vinces, the words which Constantine saw in the sky before the battle of Milvian Bridge?
In this sign, you will conquer
Following the battle of Milvian Bridge, Constantine had full control of the west. Who had full control of the east until Constantine defeated him in 324 AD?
Licinius
Which of the sons of Theodosius I ruled in the west?
Honorius
