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中国考博辅导首选学校 大连理工大学考博英语模拟真题及其解析 Between the eight and elevent centuries A. D., the Byzantine Empire staged an almost unparalleled economic and cultural revival, a recovery that is all the more striking because it followed a long period of severe internal decline. By the early eight century, the empirehad lostroughly two-thirds of the territory ithad possessed inthe year 600, and itsremaining areawas being raided by Arabs and Bulgarians, who at times threatened to take Constantinople and extinguished the empire altogether. The wealt of the state and its subjectswasgreatlydiminished,andartisticandliteraryproduction had virtually ceased. By the early elevent century, however, the empire had regained almost half of its lost possessions, its new frontierswere secure,and itsinfluenceextendedfarbeyond itsGeng duo yuan xiao wan zheng kao bo ying yu zhen ti ji qi jie xi qing lian xi quan guo mian fei zi xun dian hua: si ling ling liu liuba liu jiu qi ba ,huo jia zi xun qq: qi qi er liu qi ba wu san qi borders. The economyhadrecovered, thetreasurywas full,andartand scholarship had advanced. To consider the Byzantine military, cultural, and economic advances as differentiated aspects of a single phenomenon is reasonable. After all, these three forms of progress have gone together inanumber of statesand civilizations.RomeunderAugustus and fifth-century Athens provide the most obvious examples in antiquity. Moreover, an examination of the apparent sequential connectionsamongmilitary, economic,and culturalformsofprogress 中国考博辅导首选学校 might help explain the dynamics of historical change. The common explanation of these apparent connections inthe case ofByzantiumwouldrun likethis:whentheempirehadturnedbackenemy raids on its own territory and had begun to raid and conquer enemy territory, Byzantine resources naturally expanded and more money be