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An Empire Across Three Continents
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'The great urban centres that lived the shores of the Mediterra were the true bedrock of the empiral system'. Explain

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The explanation:

1. It was through the cities that ‘Government’ was able to tax the provincial countrysides which generated much of the wealth of the empire what this means is that the local upper classes actively collaborated with the Roman state in administering their own territories and raising taxes from them.
In fact, one of the most interesting aspects of Roman political history is the dramatic shift in power between Italy and the Provinces.

2. Throughout the second and third centuries, it was the provincial upper classes who supplied most of the cadre that governed the provinces and commanded the armies.

They came to form a new elite of administrators and military commanders who became much more powerful than the senatorial class because they had the backing of the emperors.

3. As this new group emerged, the emperor Gallienus (253-68) consolidated their rise to power by excluding senators from military command. We are told that Gallienus forbade senators from serving in the army or having access to it, in order to prevent control of the empire from falling into their hands.

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