PersonAD 244 – AD 311
Diocletian
Roman emperor (r. 284–305) who ended the third-century crisis, created the Tetrarchy and the dominate, and launched the Great Persecution of Christians
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In the 3rd century Rome suffered turmoil as armies made and unmade emperors. Diocletian divided rule of the empire four ways and founded the dominate, in which the emperor was revered like a god.
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- Greece and Rome2000 BC – AD 476
From the Aegean civilisation to the fall of the Western Roman Empire — the classical civilisation built by the democracy of the polis and the Roman republic and empire