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The 32 pages that link to Crisis of the Third Century, each with the reason it gives.

• Constantine the GreatNarrower topic: Its disruptions prompted reforms that framed Constantine’s political world.

• Fall of the Western Roman EmpireNarrower topic: Its instability exposed weaknesses that later western emperors struggled to contain.

• DiocletianNarrower topic: Diocletian came to power as this prolonged crisis reached its close.

• TetrarchyNarrower topic: Repeated coups and simultaneous threats exposed the limits of one emperor governing the whole empire.

• Severan dynastyNarrower topic: The Severan collapse marks the conventional beginning of this imperial crisis.

• AurelianNarrower topic: Aurelian’s reign was a decisive phase in this prolonged imperial emergency.

• ValerianNarrower topic: His defeat intensified a crisis already weakening imperial control.

• Battle of NaissusNarrower topic: The battle occurred amid the empire’s overlapping military and political emergencies.

• Claudius GothicusNarrower topic: Claudius ruled during this empire-wide emergency.

• GallienusNarrower topic: Gallienus’s reign was one of the crisis’s most turbulent stretches.

• Decius (Roman emperor)Narrower topic: Decius’s contested accession and frontier wars unfolded within this broader instability.

• Philip the ArabNarrower topic: Philip’s short reign unfolded amid the recurring military challenges and contested successions of this period.

• Maximinus ThraxNarrower topic: Maximinus’s accession marks the crisis’s conventional beginning.

• Severus AlexanderNarrower topic: His murder in 235 conventionally marks the beginning of this prolonged crisis.

• Battle of AbritusNarrower topic: The defeat and succession crisis added to the empire’s mounting pressures.

• Barracks emperorNarrower topic: This crisis produced repeated army-led challenges to imperial rule.