Year of the Six Emperors
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Year of the Six Emperors
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The Year of the Six Emperors was the year AD 238, during which six men made claims to be emperors of Rome. This was an early symptom of what historians now call the Crisis of the Third Century, also known as Military Anarchy or the Imperial Crisis, a period in which the Roman Empire nearly collapsed under the combined pressures of foreign invasions and migrations into the Roman territory, plagues, civil wars, peasant rebellions, political instability, Roman reliance on foreign mercenaries known
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Year with six claimants as Emperor of Rome (238 CE)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_of_the_Six_Emperors
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2006-08-12T22:10:43Z
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2024-09-09T17:18:38Z
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