The wealth of the nation was due to trade and to its military strength. At the same time, western Roman cities began to crumble while Constantinople remained stable. How did the Byzantine Empire ...

The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman Empire ... Historians call the republic’s later, third phase the Dominate—during which military emperors, ruling from wherever military ...

For the Eastern Roman Empire -- known to us as "Byzantine" -- the Danube was a critical military and political frontier. In the disastrous seventh century this frontier was overwhelmed by invading ...

They were normally under the command of the duces (the dux was a type of military governor), and it is unclear who created them, whether it was Diocletian or Constantine, as the first documented ...

The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories in Egypt, North Africa, and the Levant lost to the expanding Islamic ...

There were approximately 73 emperors and five ruling empresses of the Eastern Roman empire, which we call “Byzantine” (the count varies ... II,” which cautiously suggests that this ferocious military ...