Explain how Byzantium and the Byzantine empire served as a crossroads and buffer zone between the Arabs in Asia Minor and the remnants of the Roman Empire in Western Europe
What distinctive practices enabled the Byzantine empire to survive as long as it did?
Answers will vary but correct responses should include: Historians refer to the eastern Roman Empire as the Byzantine empire from "Byzantium," the former name of Constantinople. After losing control of Rome's Atlantic provinces, the empire reverted to being a purely Mediterranean enterprise, with its center of gravity at the eastern end of the sea. Led by Justinian, he made the Byzantine empire a crossroads that included importing silk from China and allying with Arabs and Ethiopians against Persia. He urged his armies against barbarian kingdoms with fanatical perseverance, at crippling cost. The outcome, as can be seen from the map, reunited most of the Mediterranean world. The robust performance of the eastern empire in the crises that followed was impressive.
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A) eunuchs B) mandarins C) Confucians D) samurai
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A. the first half of the 17th century B. the second half of the 17th century C. the first half of the 18th century D. the second half of the 18th century
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(a) amendments to the United States Constitution (b) powers that the Constitution reserves for the states (c) powers that the Constitution denies to Congress and to the states (d) practices of the government that are based on custom and tradition