PersonAD 347 – AD 395

Theodosius I

Also called: Theodosius the Great

Last emperor to rule the whole Roman Empire (r. 379–395), who made Christianity the state religion and divided the empire between his two sons at his death

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    When Emperor Theodosius died in 395 he left the empire to his two sons, splitting it into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

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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