The Roman Divorce - East vs West
Imagine you have a chocolate bar as big as your desk. It is your bar but the whole class is trying to eat it instead. What would you do?
Do as a group and answer in notes
As a table group, come up with at least three different solutions and write them in your notebook.
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Summarize in notes:
This was the situation in Rome around 300C.E. the empire was too big and it had too many enemies, the solution was to split it up into two regions each with their own empires, each with their own emperor and helper. These leaders were called tetrarchs. ("Tetra" is the latin root for four) This worked for 100 years until the two just became separate Empires, the ERE (Eastern Roman Empire) and WRE (Western Roman Empire).
