Jiang treats the Byzantine Empire as historically continuous with Rome but argues that explaining it requires asking why Constantine moved the capital, why the empire endured, and why it declined.
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Jiang treats the Byzantine Empire as historically continuous with Rome but argues that explaining it requires asking why Constantine moved the capital, why the empire endured, and why it declined.
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"Okay, so good morning. Today, this morning, we are doing the Byzantine Empire, and I will be looking at three questions. The first question..."
"Why did it collapse? What were the factors that led to its eventual demise? So those are the three questions we will be looking..."
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Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
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