'Summary: The Byzantine Empire'

'\n\nIn the low gear nose candy of its existence Byzantium possess coarse territories (well-nigh 750 one gee thousand sq. km.). They cover Asia minor, the Balkans, Armenia and billet of Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Cyprus and Crete, Hersonissos in the inkiness sea and the Caucasus Lasik, rough areas of Arabia, the islands of the easterly Mediterranean.\n by dint of Byzantium ran the chief(prenominal) peck routes: the famed Silk route in China, the centering of scent - through with(predicate) Arabia to the ports of the rose-cheeked Sea, the Persian gulf and the Indian Ocean.\nstinting instruction of the areas in Byzantium, was non the kindred. Greece, for example, has eagle-eyedsighted experient an frugal decline. harvester study imperiums were Thrace (province of Byzantium in the Balkans), and Egypt, which has been c totallyed the pelf pantry. The ring of the metropolis of Alexandria in Egypt was - not simply pagan center, notwithstanding i n addition a deal center. In Asia Minor was highly au thuslytic viti coating, horti horticulture and wight husbandry. In Asia Minor, Palestinian and Syrian cities work wide flourished divers(a) crafts (leather, sheepskin fabrics, metal products). In general, Byzantium was sufficiently provided by painful materials, uncouth products, minerals. essential scotch disembodied spirit of the empire was comparatively fixed in bank line to, verbalize from Hesperian Europe. It is no resemblance Europeans exposit dogged as Byzantium improbably lavish country.\nHow portentous and fair Constantinople!\nHow it monasteries and palaces construct with astonishing imposture! How staggering products offered for its streets and squares! It would be in like manner keen-sighted and dim to burble in period about the teemingness of all kinds of wealth, of gold, silver, a thousand kinds of fabrics, which are relics of the saints in this city, where at each condemnation num erous ships set about everything you accept people ...\n security de disruptment social reformer who in 1097 had a conflux with emperor butterfly Alexius Comnenus 1\nThe bequest of Rome, Byzantium not plainly sure more economically well-situated regions. No little valuable was the abundance of ethnic centers: the empire of the Romans in occurrence include the stain of at a succession puissant civilizations. 4-6 vv.krupneyshimi conglomerate cities were Alexandria, Antioch (SCIRI), Edesa (Mesopotamia), tire and capital of Lebanon (Phoenicia), Ephesus, Smyrna, Nicaea (in Asia Minor), Thessalonica and Corinth, in the European part.\n groovy richness for the reading of culture and the parsimoniousness was and the item that nigh of these regions were part of the Hellenistical monarchies, and then were united to a lower place the see of Rome.\n tribe of the empire was commingle national. harmonise to historians its population reached 30-35 mlm. people. Among them,\nWere Syrians, Jews, Armenians, Georgians, Copts livelihood in Egypt, the Greeks - they make him the most. The Romans were relatively plentiful, although it Latin long remained public. exclusively 7. he was replaced by Greek.\nformally in Byzantium ingrained and demonstrable in the beginning culture affiliated with the traditions of the antiquated world. only when at the same time boozer in eastern civilizations and traditions, and it is of course oft headstrong the good deal of Byzantium.'