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The Crisis of the Third Century, also known as the Military Anarchy [1] or the Imperial Crisis (235–284), was a period in Roman history during which the Roman Empire nearly collapsed under the combined pressure of repeated foreign invasions, civil wars and economic disintegration. At the height of the crisis, the Roman state split into three ...
The system fell apart in the 230s, giving way to a fifty-year period known as the Military Anarchy or the Crisis of the Third Century, following the assassination of the 28-year-old emperor Severus Alexander (the last emperor of the Severan dynasty), where no fewer than twenty emperors held the reins of power, most for only a few months.
The Crisis of the Third Century was a prolongued series of civil wars, barbarian invasions, usurpation, and (attempted) secession that plagued the Roman Empire from the assassination of Emperor Alexander Severus (235) to the rise to power of Diocletian (284).
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The Plague of Cyprian was a pandemic which afflicted the Roman Empire from about AD 249 to 262, [1] [2] or 251/2 to 270. [3] The plague is thought to have caused widespread manpower shortages for food production and the Roman army, severely weakening the empire during the Crisis of the Third Century.
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