User talk:The Smartical Blonde

where did this article come from?

where on Wikipedia?

"It started it 212 during the rein of Caracalla, who was eventually murdered during his conquest of Armani...weak attempt to cement reputation. the next event is during the crisis of the 3rd century. This was during the Gallic empire and Palmyra. Rome lost France(Gaul) the British isles (Britannia) and Spain. They also lost Egypt and the Levant. It was on the brink of collapse, but it managed to brave through. Diocletian was the ruler right after the crisis. He divided it in 4ths, the Balkan peninsula, Italy and northern Africa, Gaul, Spain, and Britain, and Asia minor and the lav ant. Constantine's father was ruler of the Gaul area with the capitol in trier. The system broke down very soon as Diocletian died in 306. Constantine was freed from Diocletian's house arrest and quickly went to his father, but his father died soon after. He quickly seized support from the troops in Britain for support in becoming Caesar, but he didn't get the approval of the other Augustus's. He marches into trier and declared himself emperor. Soon the approval was given,. Constantine quickly tried to sieve Italy and north Africa (not Egypt yet...) but the Augustus, magnetise from the east wanted the lands also. They engaged at a bridge in Rome and Constantine saw the cross and conquer in the name of god. He told his troops and what little Christians convinced everyone that it was a good sign. With this he won the battle and the entire western half of the empire was his, and built the last and biggest triumphal arch in Rome. The eastern Augustus now ruling all of thew east quickly offered his sister in marriage for a political reason. Constantine accepted, but wanted to take the east for himself. The invasion begun and i think at 323 he defeated his rival and had him killed against his wife's will at Byzantium. He was a total stranger to the east and needed to cement his power in there fast, and gain the people's trust. He build his capital of Constantinople, formerly Byzantium. It was a city of 50,000 inhabitants. He tried to convince people to come, form Rome (which had over a million), but there has been 6 capitols in the east in the last 20 years, no one thought it would last long. With this in mind no one came. Constantine built the walls of Constantine and tripled the city's limits. The city was chosen as it was the end of the silk road, east to defend (surrounded by water on 3 sides and surrounded by a huge stone wall, largest ever built, and unchallenged until over a thousand years later). It was close to the Danube frontier so the emperors can easily to go there for campaigns. The city steadily grew. 325 should have been a year of celebrating, but he had his wife murdered...she might have wanted to kill him...and his son...getting to ambitious."

yea, i know, very long...

i need to know what articles were used to write that...


 * Bad spelling, bad grammar, mixed-up facts. It's dreadful. Looks like nonsense, cobbled together from a bunch of places, some just totally ridiculous. If it ever appeared on Wikipedia in that form it would be deleted quickly. Fan-1967 23:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: You can find some of this by checking the relevant articles: Caracalla, Constantine I, Byzantine Empire. But putting it together in this horrendous mishmash, that looks like it was done by an 8th-grader, and not a high-scoring one at that. Fan-1967 02:55, 24 January 2007 (UTC)