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131- The New Game in Town

The History of Rome

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Maximus Dia's Battle of the Milvian Bridge

The wild card following the settlement of three o eight was maxentius, still in control of italy and still lacking any sort of legi ay licinius first mission on behalf of the tetrarchy was supposed to have been bring italy and africa back into their hands. But as saverus and galerius had demonstrated, that was easier said than done. And the new western augustus never would initiate a concentrated effort to oust macentius from rome. That effort, as we will see next week, will be undertaken instead by constantine - leading to one of the most famous and most important battles in the whole long history of the world.

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