![]() ![]() The Roman army was reorganised to consist of mobile units ( comitatenses), often around the Emperor, to serve on campaigns against external enemies or Roman rebels, and frontier-garrison troops ( limitanei) which were capable of countering barbarian raids, but less and less capable, over time, of countering full-scale barbarian invasions. ![]() To combat inflation, he introduced the solidus, a new gold coin that became the standard for Byzantine and European currencies for more than a thousand years. He restructured the government, separating civil and military authorities. ![]() Upon his ascension, Constantine enacted numerous reforms to strengthen the empire. He eventually emerged victorious in the civil wars against emperors Maxentius and Licinius to become the sole ruler of the Roman Empire by 324. ![]() After his father's death in 306, Constantine was acclaimed as augustus (emperor) by his army at Eboracum ( York, England). He began his career by campaigning in the eastern provinces (against the Persians) before being recalled in the west (in AD 305) to fight alongside his father in the province of Britannia. Constantine served with distinction under the Roman emperors Diocletian and Galerius. Later canonised as a saint, she is traditionally credited for the conversion of her son. His mother, Helena, was a Greek woman of low birth. īorn in Naissus, Dacia Mediterranea (now Niš, Serbia), he was the son of Flavius Constantius, a Roman army officer of Illyrian origin who had been one of the four rulers of the Tetrarchy. Constantine is also the originator of the religiopolitical ideology known as Constantinism, which epitomizes the unity of church and state, as opposed to separation of church and state. He played a pivotal role in elevating the status of Christianity in Rome, decriminalizing Christian practice and ceasing Christian persecution in a period referred to as the Constantinian shift. 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. ![]()
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