... system depending on unity and when the power was moved there was no longer any control over the enormous empire. The senate neither had any power after the population's belief for the senate had decreased. The changing's of the emperor did also lead into many different wills leading the empire, not leading the empire at the same way as the last one had wanted. That led to a slowdown in the empires development. With just one emperor for a long period the empire would have looked a bit different and grown much stronger than it did. Because of the lack of loyalty to the emperor in Rome and that the empire grew steady, the leaders had to hire mercenaries to keep the new empires borders. Their loyalty wasn't like the populations, but since the people in the Roman Empire didn't want to fight there were no other solution. But ...

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