Over a long period of time, the Byzantine economy was one of the most robust in the Mediterranean. As an economic foundation, trade played an important role in the empire. As a state-controlled ...

This idea challenges the belief that such objects were acquired through trade. The Sutton Hoo site ... Saxons Acted As Mercenaries For The Byzantine Empire appeared first on Chip Chick.

“The existence of these types and other types and forms of Roman pottery in Gadara was a good evidence of a prosperous trade connections with various centres of pottery production, and though a good ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense ...

The influx created an economic boom, stimulating trade and boosting urban development ... of third- to seventh-century silver from the Byzantine Empire. At its peak, the Byzantine Empire stretched ...

we mentioned the Akritai (or Akritoi), a group of light infantry soldiers who guarded the eastern frontiers of the Byzantine Empire and were recruited from the peasants of the border provinces. Today, ...