Byzantium: the history of the disappeared empire. Harris D.

Having arisen on the wreckage of the Great Roman Empire, Byzantium throughout its more than a thousand -year history was an arena of constant intrusions, sediment and wars. The border of the West and the East, the symbol of the Christian world Constantinople attracted the invaders, amazing his wealth and splendor. How did the Byzantine Empire, which once belonged to half the world, despite all the shocks, lasted amazingly long and why in the end it disappeared almost without a trace, as if dissolved?

The ancient power was saved by either a powerful army, nor the skill of its politicians, nor the impregnable walls of Constantinople, nor the belief that God will not leave the first Christian empire on earth, which spread the new religion not only in its vast territory, but also in neighboring states. About how to arise, the rules of the world and the Byzantium died, as well as what heritage left the modern world, says British historian Jonathan Harris.