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Romes Imperial Crisis has been difficult for historians to summarize which is why despite being one of the most intriguing periods in Roman history it is often overlooked by people who have chosen to focus on the more cohesive periods before and after itEven though he is best remembered for his religious reforms and what his mostly Christian admirers described as his spiritual enlightenment Constantine was also an able and effective ruler in his own right Rising to power in a period of decline and confusion for the Roman Empire he gave it a new and unexpected lease on life by repelling the repeated invasions of the Germanic tribes on the Northern and Eastern borders of the Roman domains even going so far as to reexpand the frontier into parts of Trajans old conquest of Dacia modern Romania which had been abandoned as strategically untenable