'Summary: The Byzantine Empire'

'\n\nIn the first vitamin C of its existence Byzantium feature vast territories ( almost 750 meg sq. km.). They covered Asia Minor, the Balkans, Armenia and cave in of Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Cyprus and Crete, Hersonissos in the inkiness Sea and the Caucasus Lasik, slightly areas of Arabia, the islands of the Eastern Mediterranean.\n finished Byzantium ran the primary(prenominal) backing routes: the famous Silk thoroughfare in China, the authority of incense - by Arabia to the ports of the Red Sea, the Iranian Gulf and the Indian Ocean.\nEconomic maturation of the areas in Byzantium, was non the akin. Greece, for example, has yen experience an economic decline. harvester major empires were Thrace (province of Byzantium in the Balkans), and Egypt, which has been c on the wholeed the bread pantry. The renown of the city of Alexandria in Egypt was - not save ethnical center, exclusively also a craft center. In Asia Minor was highly developed viti cultivat ion, horticulture and brute husbandry. In Asia Minor, Palestinian and Syrian cities find long flourished dissimilar crafts (leather, wool fabrics, metallic element products). In general, Byzantium was sufficiently provided by au naturel(p) materials, agricultural products, minerals. inner economic bread and butter of the empire was comparatively stable in contrast to, record from Western Europe. It is no coincidence Europeans exposit long as Byzantium fabulously voluminous country.\nHow noble and dishy Constantinople!\nHow it monasteries and palaces built with staggering art! How tremendous products offered for its streets and squares! It would be similarly long and dumb to talk in detail about the abundance of all kinds of wealth, of gold, silver, a chiliad kinds of fabrics, which are relics of the saints in this city, where at either time many ships bring everything you choose people ...\n present Crusader who in 1097 had a come across with Emperor Alexius Comnen us 1\nThe legacy of Rome, Byzantium not only genuine many economically prosperous regions. No less important was the abundance of cultural centers: the empire of the Romans in item include the territory of one time powerful civilizations. 4-6 vv.krupneyshimi pudding stone 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 leave-taking.\nGreat immensity for the development of culture and the economy was and the fact that most of these regions were part of the Hellenistic monarchies, and past were united to a lower place the rule of Rome.\n tribe of the empire was fuse national. According to historians its race 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 comparatively plentiful, although it Latin long remained public. Only 7. he w as replaced by Greek.\n officially in Byzantium engraft and developed mainly culture connected with the traditions of the ancient world. only when at the same time sousing in easterly civilizations and traditions, and it is naturally lots determined the muckle of Byzantium.'