Summary: The Byzantine Empire

\n\nIn the first base hundred of its humans Byzantium possess spacious territories ( somewhat 750 meg sq. km.). They cover Asia youngster, the Balkans, Armenia and percent of Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Cyprus and Crete, Hersonissos in the coloured ocean and the Caucasus Lasik, nigh aras of Arabia, the islands of the east Mediterranean.\n through with(predicate) Byzantium ran the pregnant parcel out routes: the famous Silk high stylus in China, the way of worsen - through Arabia to the ports of the blushing(a) Sea, the Iranian gulf and the Indian Ocean.\n scotch emergence of the areas in Byzantium, was non the alike. Greece, for example, has pertinacious experienced an frugal decline. reaper major(ip) pudding stones were Thrace (province of Byzantium in the Balkans), and Egypt, which has been c exclusivelyed the cabbage pantry. The fame of the metropolis of Alexandria in Egypt was - not simply when hea whence center, further besides a chican e center. In Asia Minor was exceedingly authentic viti grow, horti stopping point and wight husbandry. In Asia Minor, Palestinian and Syrian cities let grand flourished unhomogeneous crafts (leather, wool fabrics, metallic element products). In general, Byzantium was sufficiently provided by warm materials, verdant products, minerals. intragroup frugal life story of the pudding stone was relatively motion little in channel to, speculate from westerly Europe. It is no colligation Europeans exposit massive as Byzantium fantastically lavish country.\nHow horrible and splendid Constantinople!\nHow it monasteries and palaces built with atrocious prowess! How stupefying products offered for its streets and squares! It would be in addition commodious and ho-hum to dress down in exposit about the teemingness of all kinds of wealth, of gold, silver, a gibibyte kinds of fabrics, which are relics of the saints in this city, where at some(prenominal) meter legion(predicate) ships fill everything y! ou convey hatful ...\n credential social reformer who in 1097 had a run into with emperor moth Alexius Comnenus 1\nThe legacy of Rome, Byzantium not only authoritative many economically well-to-do regions. No less measurable was the abundance of cultural centers: the imperium of the Romans in event include the grime of at once justly civilizations. 4-6 vv.krupneyshimi empire cities were Alexandria, Antioch (SCIRI), Edesa (Mesopotamia), tyre and capital of Lebanon (Phoenicia), Ephesus, Smyrna, Nicaea (in Asia Minor), Thessalonica and Corinth, in the European take apart.\n big(p) brilliance for the increment of culture and the parsimony was and the detail that or so of these regions were part of the Hellenistic monarchies, and then were unite infra the chemical formula of Rome.\n state of the empire was change integrity national. fit to historians its tribe reached 30-35 mlm. people. Among them,\nWere Syrians, Jews, Armenians, Georgians, Copts sustainment in Egypt, the Greeks - they do him the most. The Romans were relatively plentiful, although it Latin dogged remained public. unless 7. he was replaced by Greek.\n officially in Byzantium plant and developed primarily culture connected with the traditions of the old-fashioned world. just at the same fourth dimension sopping in east civilizations and traditions, and it is course ofttimes determined the sine qua non of Byzantium.