The Emperor Diocletian divided the empire into halves with the Eastern Empire governed out of Byzantium (later Constantinople) and the Western Empire governed from Rome. Both sections were known equally as `The Roman Empire’ although, in time, the Eastern Empire would adopt Greek instead of Latin and would lose much of the character of the traditional Roman Empire. read more
The Roman Empire is divided into two eras because of the different natures of the government. In the first part of the Roman Empire, the rulers were secular, meaning that the government was political. read more