Diocletian
•Diocletian (284 to 305) was an able administrator who introduced many social, economic, and political reforms.
•He removed the political and economic privileges that Rome and Italy had enjoyed at the expense of the provinces.
•He sought to regulate rampant inflation by controlling prices and setting a maximum wage for workers.
•To provide a more efficient administration, uniform throughout the empire, he split the empire into
four
parts, naming three other Caesars, but this only eventually caused problems.
•In 305. Diocletian and Maximian abdicated and a civil war ensued between the remaining two Caesars that did not end until the accession
of
Constantine the Great in 312.
