The Roman Empire From Severus To Constantine 〈2025-2027〉

Severus shifted the empire’s power base away from the Senate and toward the military. While this provided short-term stability, it created a dangerous precedent. His successors, including the notorious , expanded citizenship to nearly all free inhabitants of the empire (the Constitutio Antoniniana ), primarily to increase tax revenue for a ballooning military budget. However, the dynasty ended in chaos with the assassination of Alexander Severus in 235 AD, triggering a half-century of near-total collapse. The Crisis of the Third Century (235–284 AD)

By the time of Constantine’s death in 337 AD, the Roman Empire was unrecognizable from the one Severus had inherited. The Mediterranean world had shifted from a pagan, Rome-centered principate to a Christian, East-leaning autocracy. This "Late Antiquity" set the stage for the Byzantine Empire in the East and the eventual rise of medieval Europe in the West. The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine

He took an active role in church doctrine, seeking to unify the faith. Severus shifted the empire’s power base away from

The Cyprian Plague decimated the workforce and the army. However, the dynasty ended in chaos with the

The empire physically broke apart into three pieces: the Gallic Empire in the west, the Palmyrene Empire in the east, and the Roman core. Diocletian and the Tetrarchy (284–305 AD)