Throughout much of the 3rd century in the Roman empire, the empire itself teetered on the brink of collapse. Social, economic and military pressures pushed the empire to its limits, with many of these problems surviving in one form or another beyond the reign of Constantine. Many historians have begun to contest the notion of the existence of a crisis century, merely stating that Rome was in a perpetual decline in one form or another, or to put it simply; all of Rome’s existence was a Crisis-era. However, despite this prevailing attitude, Rome did in fact suffer through tremendous hardship during the early to late 3rd century, with the actions of several would be military usurpers and long lines of unfit emperors leading the empire further onto the brink of dissolution. Until one emperor found wild success and managed to instill a panoply of economic, social, religious, and military reforms that gave the empire hundreds of years of life.