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in 324 AD Emperor Constantine I moved the Imperial capital intending to raise the status of his new city as capital and deprecate the importance of the "old" capital of Rome (technically Rome had ceased to be the imperial capital decades earlier but the Senate continued to meet there). The creation of the new senate among other things contributed to the gradual separation of the East and West and to the decline of the city of Rome itself.
WI Constantine I decides to retain the old Senate in Rome and doesnot create a new one? Could this have delayed or aborted the separation of East and West?
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