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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..."
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"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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