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Jiang rejects the strategic consensus as incomplete and says the more important reason for Constantine's move is tied to Byzantium becoming the birthplace of modern Christianity.
Jiang argues that Byzantium was culturally a radical departure from Rome: Christian rather than pagan, Greek and multicultural rather than Roman, and bureaucratic empire rather than Senate-governed republic.
"And so by moving to Constantinople, it allows the emperor to most easily and most directly respond to the threat of the Persians. Okay...."
"That was their religion. They were Roman, meaning that they had a distinct cultural identity. And lastly, they were republic, meaning they were run..."
"being republic, meaning that it went, being run by Senate, to an empire, which basically meant it was being run by a bureaucracy. Okay?..."
Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
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