The bigger wealth disparity between the two upper class and lower middle classes created a power gap. The Senate would start taxing the middle and lower classes and not the upper class. ... Due to class conflicts, The middle and lower class were being taxed and the upper class wasn't. ... His reforms, however, did save the Eastern Empire from being dragged down by the Western Empire's collapse. ... The two empires were known as the Latin Western and the Byzantine Eastern Empire (Duran). ...

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Only the western half of Rome fell; for the eastern half was wealthier and less afflicted by barbarians and civil wars. ... In order to defend themselves they needed a stronger army so higher taxes and labor services were forced upon citizens causing middle and lower class people to hate the government because it had taken so much from them. ...

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In 284AD Diocletian divided the empire into two separate states, the eastern and the western. ... The middle classes disintegrated and made way for the poor to become poorer and the rich to become richer. ...

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After years of meditation and study, he found the "Middle Path" and became enlightened. ... Buddhism sought out to teach people in East Asia that instead of rich and impoverished lives, one should follow the Middle Path. ... The Han Dynasty was split into the Eastern Han and the Western Han. ...

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By this advance he subjected modern Switzerland, Austria, much of Hungary, and the Balkans to Roman rule and protected the connections between the western and eastern provinces of the Empire; no other Roman leader made such additions. ... (Exouedate.com) In the sixth century AD, the Eastern Roman Emperor, Justinian (Iustinianus), ordered the compilation of several law codes. ...

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Gladiatorial contests hold a central place in our perception of Roman behavior. They were also a big influence on how Romans themselves ordered their lives. Attending the games was one of the practices that went with being a Roman. The Etruscans who introduced this type of contest in the sixth century BC, are credited with its development but it is the Romans who made it famous.(Adapted from Tacitus) A surviving feature of the Roman games was when a gladiator fell he was hauled out of the arena by a slave dressed as the Etruscan death-demon Charun....

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