Dan < said: > Speaking of which IIRC, while the Roman empire did break into two > adminstrative units, they didn't war, but one just let the other > fade away first.
That's pretty much untrue. Diocletian's original Tetrarchy (which had two senior emperors and two junior emperors, the Augusti and Caesars respectively and which significantly separated powers between the East and West) lasted only a few decades before war between Constantine in the West and Licinius in the East left Constantine as sole ruler of the Roman world. Under Constantius II, one of Constantine's sons, the empire was split three ways, but later reunified by war. By the time of the final separation of the two halves of the empire on the death of Theodosius I in AD395, the Western half was in no position to do anything much except crumble under the onslaught of Germans and Huns. (Although, Stilicho, the general of the Western armies, managed to campaign against the Vigigoths in Greece and Thrace.) For that matter, the East didn't let the West fade away - Theodosius II sent large military forces to assist the West against the Huns. Rich _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
