Diocletians_Reforms

Diocletians Reforms Diocletian’s Reforms The Roman empire regained order and stability through its powerful emperor Diocletian. He made a set of reforms to stabilize the empire. He knew that if he did not do so, the empire would eventually fall. One of the first notable things Diocletian decided to do to stabilize the empire was to establish a capital. He said,”Wherever I am, that’s where the capital is.” The capital was in no specific place. However he did spend most of his time fighting for his empire against the Germans along the Northern border. The next set of reforms involved the military. First, he took each legion and divided them in half. This created double the amount of legions, but they were significantly smaller. When he drafted soldiers to fight, he did not draft a certain number of men but rather a number of legions. He never increased the men per legion. This then led to the military becoming more mobile. Since the Roman army moved too slow, Diocletian wanted to mount them on horses. This created a light calvary and enabled them to move on empire, reforms, system, men, created, set, diocletian’s, subjects, rather, part, market, led, important, huge, each, diocletian, caste, capital, work, value, unfortunately, took, think, tax, stabilize, running, roman, prices, organization, one, occupational, occupation, number, next