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Historians consider 395 the year when the eastern part and western parts of the Roman Empire became separated. It was not due to an imperial decision to do so, but by events. Theodosius was succeeded by his two sons, with Honorius taking charge of the western part and Arcadius taking charge of the eastern part. This was not new. There had been many co-emperorships with one man in charge of the east and one in charge of the west before. It was caused by two factors. One was that Arcadius and Honorius were young and incompetent and allowed intrigue to occur at their courts in Ravenna (in the west) and Constantinople (in the east) respectively and powerful people at these two courts to conspire against each other's courts. The other was that the western part of the Roman Empire soon begun to crumble under the weight of the invasions by the Germanic peoples, while the eastern part was not affected by these invasions. Apart from a couple of instances of east-west co-operation against the invaders, the western part had to largely fend off for itself. When the western part started to disintegrate, the eastern emperor also interfered with the politics in the west. For the west the split was not helpful. The east was not affected by these invasions and continued to exist for nearly 1000 years.
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