Reforms by Diocletian and Constantine 2.0 - Gabriel Ponce

 Reforms by Diocletian and Constantine


Constantine II


Yet it would be a mistake to consider Constantine a revolutionary or to overlook those areas in which, rather than innovating, he followed precedent. Earlier emperors had sought to constrain groups of men to perform certain tasks that were deemed vital to the survival of the state but that proved unremunerative or repellent to those forced to assume the burden 

Such tasks included the tillage of the soil, which was the work of the peasant, or colonus; the transport of cheap bulky goods to the metropolitan centres of Rome or Constantinople, which was the work of the shipmaster, or navicularius; and services rendered by the curiales, members of the municipal senate charged with the assessment and collection of local taxes.



What were the effects of the political and military reforms of Diocletian and Constantine?


Diocletian military power still enabled him to claim a higher status and to hold the ultimate authority, Constantine continued and even expanded the policies of Diocletian; the political and military reforms of Diocletian and Constantine greatly enlarged two institutions the army and civil service.  

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