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    From the second century CE, the Roman Empire faced internal political chaos and invasions from Germanic tribes along its northern borders. This continued until Diocletian and Constantine reorganized the empire administratively in the third and fourth centuries, establishing an absolute monarchy. Constantine patronized Christianity and founded Constantinople, advancing the religion's spread throughout the empire. By the fifth century, repeated invasions weakened the Western Empire until the deposition of the last Western emperor in 476, ending hopes of restoring order. Though the empire fell, its cultural and political influences continued through the Christian Church and early medieval European states.

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    From the second century CE, the Roman Empire faced internal political chaos and invasions from Germanic tribes along its northern borders. This continued until Diocletian and Constantine reorganized the empire administratively in the third and fourth centuries, establishing an absolute monarchy. Constantine patronized Christianity and founded Constantinople, advancing the religion's spread throughout the empire. By the fifth century, repeated invasions weakened the Western Empire until the deposition of the last Western emperor in 476, ending hopes of restoring order. Though the empire fell, its cultural and political influences continued through the Christian Church and early medieval European states.

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    From the second century CE, the Roman Empire faced internal political chaos and invasions from Germanic tribes along its northern borders. This continued until Diocletian and Constantine reorganized the empire administratively in the third and fourth centuries, establishing an absolute monarchy. Constantine patronized Christianity and founded Constantinople, advancing the religion's spread throughout the empire. By the fifth century, repeated invasions weakened the Western Empire until the deposition of the last Western emperor in 476, ending hopes of restoring order. Though the empire fell, its cultural and political influences continued through the Christian Church and early medieval European states.

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    From the middle of the second century CE, The Roman Empire faced increasing Germanic tribe

    infiltration along the Danubian and Rhine borders, and internal political chaos. Without efficient
    imperial succession, Romans in from the third century set up generals as emperors, who were
    quickly deposed by rival claimants. Facilitating further territorial losses to Barbarian tribes, this
    continued until Diocletian (r. 284-305). He and Constantine (324-337) administratively reorganized
    the empire, engineering an absolute monarchy. Cultivating a secluded imperial tenor, Constantine
    the Great patronized Christianity, particularly in his new city Constantinople, founded on the ancient
    site of Byzantium. Christianization, in the Hellenized and Mediterranean cities and among certain
    Barbarian newcomers, proceeded with imperial support, and became the state religion under
    Theodosius (r. 379-95). Germanic tribal invasions also proceeded, as did battles with the Sassanids
    in the East. From 375 Gothic invasions, spurred by Hunnic marauding, began en masse, particularly
    in Danubian, Balkan areas. Entanglement with imperial armies resulted in Roman defeats, and
    increased migration into Roman heartlands as far as Iberia. The Empire, as military and
    bureaucracy, underwent a certain Germanization. From the death of Theodosius, the Eastern
    Empire followed its own course, evolving into the Hellenized Byzantine state by the seventh century,
    as repeated sackings of Latin Rome (410, 455), contraction of food supplies to the West, and
    deposition of the last Western Emperor (Romulus Augustulus) by the Ostrogoth Odovacar (476),
    ended any hope of recovering Pax-Romana in the Mediterranean basin. Gaul was controlled by a
    shifting patchwork of tribes.
    But though the Empire itself no longer existed, through the Christian Church, through the always
    idealized vision of glorious Rome, and through the political structures that evolved out of Rome's
    carcass, vestiges of the Empire played vital and identifiable roles in the formation of the early
    Medieval European world.

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