Congress first allowed nonwhites to become naturalized citizens in when it extended naturalization to “persons of african descent.”

Congress first allowed nonwhites to become naturalized citizens in 1870,when it extended naturalization to “persons of African descent.”

The Roman Empire had grown so vast that it was no longer reasonable to govern all the provinces from the central seat of Rome. So Emperor Diocletian divided the empire into halves with the Eastern Empire governed out of Byzantium and the western empire governed out of Rome.