Western Civilization I / Unit 9 WC1 0816 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Macedonian Golden Age, 867 to 1056
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The idea
The Macedonian dynasty from eight sixty-seven reconquered to Mesopotamia, Crete and Cyprus, restored trade, and built and copied: a renaissance of Christianized classical study. Basil II died in ten twenty-five without an heir, and decline began.
In practice
Photius's encyclopedia preserving texts otherwise lost, an anchor-only item.
Where people slip
Independent farmers were absorbed by aristocrats, so theme soldiers vanished. The Republic's problem again.
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