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The Byzantine Empire was quite modern.
Its tax system and administration were so
efficient that the empire survived more than a
thousand years.
The culture was rich and affluent, while science
and technology also developed.
Byzantine tradition of rhetoric and public debate
Philosophical and theological discourses
Debates
Greek philosophical and scientific heritage
Byzantine Architecture
Hagia Sophia
Christianity
Phorphyrogenitus Dynasty
Komnenos Dynasty
Started in 1081 and ended in 1185 ;
Komnenian emperors that reigned during this period:
Alexios the First, John the Second ,Manuel the First,
Alexios the Second and Andronikos the First.
During this dynasty,the Byzantine Empire played a major
role in the Crusades in the Holy Land which exerted a
vast amount of cultural and political influence in the
Western world.
Evolution of Byzantine art and literature as well as trade
(Italian and Venetian mercenaries resided in the
Byzantine Empire)
Emperor John the Second carried wars against the
Nomadic people from the North and against the Turks
from the South-East;
A new military reform was adopted for the sake of
restoring the empire's power and land;
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