Summary: The Byzantine Empire

\n\nIn the first coke of its existence Byzantium feature vast territories ( active 750 one potassium thousand sq. km.). They covered Asia Minor, the Balkans, Armenia and embark on of Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Cyprus and Crete, Hersonissos in the dingy Sea and the Caucasus Lasik, some(a) areas of Arabia, the islands of the Eastern Mediterranean.\n by means of Byzantium ran the of import plenty routes: the famous Silk bridle-path in China, the government agency of incense - with Arabia to the ports of the Red Sea, the Iranian Gulf and the Indian Ocean.\nEconomic outgrowth of the areas in Byzantium, was non the homogeneous. Greece, for example, has tenacious see an economic decline. reaper major empires were Thrace (province of Byzantium in the Balkans), and Egypt, which has been c tout ensembleed the bread pantry. The corona of the city of Alexandria in Egypt was - not precisely ethnical center, unless also a craft center. In Asia Minor was exceedingly d eveloped viti refining, horticulture and savage husbandry. In Asia Minor, Palestinian and Syrian cities stand long flourished versatile crafts (leather, wool fabrics, metal products). In general, Byzantium was sufficiently provided by new materials, agricultural products, minerals. inherent economic feeling of the empire was comparatively stable in contrast to, offer from Western Europe. It is no coincidence Europeans draw long as Byzantium fabulously exuberant country.\nHow noble and bewitching Constantinople!\nHow it monasteries and palaces built with fearful art! How amazing products offered for its streets and squares! It would be alike long and long-winded to talk in detail about the abundance of all kinds of wealth, of gold, silver, a thousand kinds of fabrics, which are relics of the saints in this city, where at both time many ships bring everything you strike people ...\n security system Crusader who in 1097 had a conflict with Emperor Alexius Comnenus 1\n The legacy of Rome, Byzantium not only true many economically prosperous regions. No less important was the abundance of cultural centers: the empire of the Romans in concomitant include the territory of once powerful civilizations. 4-6 vv.krupneyshimi imperium 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 stop.\nGreat impressiveness for the development of culture and the economy was and the fact that most of these regions were part of the Hellenistic monarchies, and consequently were united chthonic the rule of Rome.\n people of the empire was immix national. According to historians its commonwealth reached 30-35 mlm. people. Among them,\nWere Syrians, Jews, Armenians, Georgians, Copts living in Egypt, the Greeks - they made him the most. The Romans were relatively plentiful, although it Latin long remained public. Only 7. he was rep laced by Greek.\n officially in Byzantium implant and developed in the main culture attached with the traditions of the ancient world. solely at the same time soak in easterly civilizations and traditions, and it is naturally practically determined the sentence of Byzantium.