The Late Empire was accredited to two Roman emperors named Diocletian and Constantine. Both of these rulers expanded and strengthened the empire’s army as well as its governing bureaucracies, which included officials who were organized into a hierarchy. The emperors also required all people to stay in their appointed occupations in order to maintain the empire despite labor and tax shortages. Constantine also built the empire’s capital, Constantinople, for defensive purposes and strategically placed it to the east. After Constantine’s death, his previously peaceful empire divided into two separate states in 395. The western Roman Empire was ultimately taken over by various Germanic tribes such as the Vandals and Visigoths and it officially
