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 | The Byzantine Empire played a key role in defending Christianity in Europe | |
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| The Empire successfully defended and/or cooperated with enemies of Christianity | |
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| Traded throughout Afro-Eurasia, most-notably through Antioch in the Eastern Mediterranean. | |
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| The Empire was responsible for greatly expanding the use of the Silk Roads and the Mediterranean Sea ways | |
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| Militaristically, the Byzantines would expand and deminish several times | |
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| The Empire claimed victory over the Sassanid Persians but was defeated by the Arabs and Seljuk Turks | |
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