The empire defeated

and the decline of paganism

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The Persians defeated and killed Julian and took possession of Armenia. In fact, the initial victories of Julian pushed him too far, and created the conditions for a weakness of the empire in the East.

The Emperor Valentinian chose as its capital Milan and Rome , for its strategic location, and Milan remained important until 402, when Ravenna was chosen in his place.

Valentinian was a Catholic , but tolerant of the pagans.

His successor, Valens was defeated at Adrianople in 378 by the Visigoths , with whom he had entered into a pact that did not survive , because of some episodes, such as the killing of some Goths, by a Roman officer .

A few years later, in 382, Theodosius , emperor of the East , the Goths were reinstated in the army, but without being subject to more Roman officials .

In 388 until 395 , when the emperor died of the West, Gratian, the Empire was reunified by Theodosius , that:
1 . In 380 he issued the Edict of Thessalonica Thessaloniki today , with which the Catholic religion became the state religion
2 . In 390 he condemned to death 7000 people in Thessalonica , responsible for the clashes , during which an officer died goth, but Christmas always humbly asked forgiveness of the 390 to the bishop Ambrose, and took from him the Eucharist , evidence of the influence of the bishops and the fact that the emperor had to submit to the natural and divine law
3 . in 391 he convened the Council of Constantinople ( second ecumenical council of Nicaea in 325 after that ) when it was repudiated Arianism , which, however , turned away from the empire , then spread among the Goths and Vandals
4 . Eugene defeated in 394 , a Christian, but sympathizer of paganism.
5 . died in 395 and left the empire, but split for good , including Honorius ( West) and Arcadius ( East)

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