... . He split the Empire into two sections, east and west with an Emperor to rule sides. He then divided the east and west again creating 4 prefectures, which he then appointed a Caesar to rule each of those. Diocletion ruled the entire east and the two Caesars reported to him, while the other elected Emperor Maximian ruled the West with his two ... Caesar under him. For a while this had succeeded to settle some of the confusion of ruling a larger Empire but it also caused a lot of other problems. Rome was no longer a dictatorship, ... that the Barbarians took control of the Western Empir...

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