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What ended the Crisis of the Third Century?

Retry Correct Incorrect As James Lacey wrote in Rome: Strategy Of Empire, it is true that Rome had a powerful enough economic core to weather the Crisis of the Third Century that saw separate empires split off in the West and East. However, Aurelian earned his nickname “The Restorer Of The World” by raising enough forces to take both of these lands back and unify the Roman Empire, albeit a version weaker than it once was.

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What ended the Crisis of the Third Century?

• Nothing did and Rome would never recover
• An outbreak of plague that brought invaders to a standstill
• The emperor Aurelian unified Rome by force
• Economic hardships that convinced the disparate empires to rejoin Rome