Reply #25: Bonobo

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Bonobo

This looks like an interesting book, So I guess I just have to buy it next time Im at the bookstore;).. Thank you for your help.

The Byzantine History is often a history of great challengers, and a lot of tragecy as the Empire had some of the greatest shallengers that history was trowing at it....

But it standed for more than One thousand year, and helped the West maybe more than many wanted to claim that they did.. Withouth the walls of Constantinople, who more than one time, challenged and repelled enemies , and the power of the greek, byzantic empire, the whole of the West, was able to rebuild in the new world who emerged from the laste 400s.. And it was also a place where knowlegde was a important tool for emperors, and a lot of the knowlegde who have made West what it is, was suvirving in the bookchells of the old empire of the east. And mutch of this, survived to be collected by the west, when the time was right, to get the knowlegde from ancient times... The different roman emperors of the east, had good pleasure in education, and did mutch to build universities, and schools, even in grade school, to make it posible for most peopole to at least read and write. Even tho late antiquity was not an easy world where education was paramount, it is pretty clear that even in "the dark ages" when the voice of education allmoust was exctinct in the West, it was glowing great in the eastern part of the Roman Empire.. And the few who wanted and have the ressourses to travel to the east, did so, and in many cases was given a education few in the west really understood.. And it is intersting to look, that most of the Popes, at least to the mid 600s, was indeed from the eastern part of the roman empire.. Even long after the western empire was something of the past, the most prominent leader in the west, the Pope was often syrian born, or at least from that part of the world. Christinity after all, was born in the area, and had a great innfluence and impact of people there and later in the west, where the Church (Chatolic Church) should transform the west to what it is today..

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