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The 'Cathedral to Wisdom' and a surviving monument Jiang treats as a great Byzantine legacy.
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Hagia Sophia
The 'Cathedral to Wisdom' and a surviving monument Jiang treats as a great Byzantine legacy.
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Constantinople’s wealth, sea walls, and location allow Byzantium to defend Anatolia and Egypt and survive for roughly a thousand years.
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"Okay? So, this is Constantine, and he is going to make Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire when he becomes emperor. Okay?..."
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"...almost impossible for the people to invade Constantinople. This is the Hagia Sophia, which is the official church of the new religion. Today we..."
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"...Arabs as well as the Persian Empire. Okay. This is the Hagia Sophia, the Cathedral to Wisdom. And this is the great monument, the..."
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"...human achievement okay so the first example is this is the Hagia Sophia and this was built in 532 in Constantinople it's still in..."
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"...to the Greeks and this will restore the Byzantine Empire. The Hagia Sophia, the main Cathedral in Constantinople, which was the seat for many..."
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
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