How Did The Roman Empire Stabilize The Byzantine Empire

Ancient Beginnings The Byzantine Empire during most of its history was one of the most influential empires in the Mediterranean. However, to find out how everything started, we need to go back to 657 BC, when the Greeks founded the colony of Byzantium or Byzantion along the European side of the Bosphorus Strait, which would become Constantinople (now Istanbul), the capital of the Byzantine Empire. This land would later be incorporated into the Roman Empire. In 330 AD, Roman Emperor, Constantine the Great reestablished Byzantium as Constantinople as the capital of the Roman Empire. Tetrarchy Initially, in 285, Emperor Diocletian split the Roman Empire into a tetrarchy to stabilize the vast Roman Empire during the Crisis of the Third Century.
These two empires would both be ruled by one senior ruler and a young colleague to share power with. Although the tetrarchy didn’t last, it made the Eastern and Western parts of the Roman Empire drift apart from each other. The Roman Split In 395, The Roman Empire, got broken into two for good due to both internal, and external factors, which now made the Western and Eastern Roman Empire are now separate entities, although the cracks in the empire started appearing all the way back in 190 AD. The last emperor of a unified Rome was Theodosius I. After he died, his sons Arcadius and Honorius, took control of the eastern and western parts of the empire, respectively. Early Years of the Byzantines The Byzantine Empire during its early years was filled with disaster and invasions. During the split, the person who came into power, Arcadius turned out to be an incompetent leader that was essentially dominated by his ministers, Rufinus, Eutropius, and Anthemius, and even his wife, Eudoxia. When he died, his son, Theodosius II, took power between 408-450, and he built the Theodosian Walls of Constantinople, expanding the city and defending the capital of the Byzantine