Empire: Tetrarchy, Constantine, and Fall

Question 1

Give the years of Diolcetian’s reign.

Answer 1

284-305 AD

Question 2

Give the years of Constantine’s reign.

Answer 2

306-337 AD

Question 3

What Dalmatian peasant rises to the imperial throne in 284 AD and ends the period of Barracks emperors?

Answer 3

Diocletian

Question 4

What system of government, in which the Empire is ruled by four people, was instituted by Diocletian?

Answer 4

Tetrarchy

Question 5

Who instituted the Tetrarchy, a system of government in which the Roman Empire is ruled by four people?

Answer 5

Diocletian

Question 6

Name the four members of the original Tetrarchy.

Answer 6

Diocletian, Galerius, Maximian, Constantius Chlorus

Question 7

In the Tetrarchy, what titles are given to the men who rule?

Answer 7

Augustus (leader)
Caesar (2nd in command)

Question 8

In the original Tetrarchy, who was the Augustus in the East?

Answer 8

Diocletian

Question 9

In the original Tetrarchy, who was the Caesar in the East?

Answer 9

Galerius

Question 10

In the original Tetrarchy, who was the Augustus in the West?

Answer 10

Maximian

Question 11

In the original Tetrarchy, who was the Caesar in the West?

Answer 11

Constantius Chlorus

Question 12

What late emperor is known as the apostate since he tried to restore paganism throughout the empire?

Answer 12

Julian

Question 13

What son of one of the original Tetrarchs rose to the imperial throne in 306 AD?

Answer 13

Constantine

Question 14

What emperor established both is own baths and the Edict On Maximum Prices?

Answer 14

Diocletian

Question 15

Who issues the Edict of Milan, legalizing Christianity across the whole empire?

Answer 15

Constantine

Question 16

Whom does Constantine defeat in 324 AD to become emperor of the whole empire?

Answer 16

Licinius

Question 17

To what city in Croatia do Diocletian and Maximian retire?

Answer 17

Salona/Split

Question 18

What tribe crushed the Romans at Adrianople in 378 AD leading to the death of the emperor Valens?

Answer 18

Ostrogoths

Question 19

Which of the sons of Theodosius I ruled in the east?

Answer 19

Arcadius

Question 20

What emperor defeats Maxentius at the battle of Milvian Bridge in 312 AD?

Answer 20

Constantine

Question 21

What emperor made Christianity the official state religion of the empire?

Answer 21

Theodosius I

Question 22

Who was the last Roman emperor in the west?

Answer 22

Romulus Augustulus

Question 23

In what year was Romulus Augustulus deposed in the west?

Answer 23

476 AD

Question 24

What two men jointly abdicate the throne in 305 AD and retire to Salona in Croatia?

Answer 24

Diocletian and Maximian

Question 25

What emperor, named after both Rome's first king and first emperor, was deposed by the German king Odoacer in 476 AD?

Answer 25

Romulus Augustulus

Question 26

Who is the first emperor to convert to Christianity, which he does on his death bed?

Answer 26

Constantine

Question 27

Who was the last emperor to rule a united Roman empire before splitting the empire between his sons Arcadius and Honorius?

Answer 27

Theodosius I

Question 28

What city became the new capital of the Empire in 330 AD?

Answer 28

Constantinople (formely Byzantium)

Question 29

At what battle in 312 AD does Constantine defeat Maxentius?

Answer 29

Milvian Bridge

Question 30

At what battle in 378 AD was Valens killed by the Ostrogoths?

Answer 30

Adrianople

Question 31

What German king deposed Romulus in September 476?

Answer 31

Odoacer

Question 32

What edict passed by Constantine legalized Christianity across the whole empire?

Answer 32

Edict of Milan

Question 33

What father of Romulus Augustulus placed him on the throne in 475 AD?

Answer 33

Orestes

Question 34

What late emperor was killed at the Battle of Adrianople in 378 at the hands of the Ostrogoths?

Answer 34

Valens

Question 35

Whom does Constantine defeat at the battle of Milvian Bridge in 312 AD?

Answer 35

Maxentius

Question 36

Who sees a cross and the words "**in hoc signo vinces**" (in this sign you will conquer) before the battle of the Milvian Bridge?

Answer 36

Constantine

Question 37

Translate **in hoc signo vinces**, the words which Constantine saw in the sky before the battle of Milvian Bridge?

Answer 37

In this sign, you will conquer

Question 38

Following the battle of Milvian Bridge, Constantine had full control of the west. Who had full control of the east until Constantine defeated him in 324 AD?

Answer 38

Licinius

Question 39

Which of the sons of Theodosius I ruled in the west?

Answer 39

Honorius