Byzantium Endures

Come to think about it, Byzantium was placed in a really good place at a really good time, geographically that is. Not only that, they were very strategic when it came to figuring out how to defend themselves from where they were at. They had great armies, and the Germanic tribes could only pass the West to get to Byzantium, and if the Germanic Tribes did get through Byzantium's great army, they had to get through an even bigger and better Asia Minor that was protecting them. So it took about a few hundred years till the Germanic tribes got through.

Byzantium was actually the closest thing to the great Rome Empire. Okay Sir Raymond, so not mention this part i'm about to say. Byzantium was like the Oklahoma City Thunder or New Orleans Hornets. They've got everything, but they're not quite there yet. They still have a few bits and pieces to put together. I mean Byzantium had a great army, emperors that weren't mad or crazy, but their weakness was Christianity, and in some ways a strength. Some Byzantines had some controversies and arguments religion. And at the end, Byzantium started to collapse. The West started appearing out of the blue, and Byzantium started asking for help from the Franks/French. And the century of Manzikert ended with the fall of Jerusalem. Jerusalem suprisingly didn't fall because of the Byzantine warrior, because Byzantium, like i said, started to fall. Jerusalem fell because of the Franks or French. Although Byzantium loss their military prowess. They still kept their culture. The expanding stopped, and they just stayed put, trying to keep what they already had.