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11. Byzantium - Last of the Romans: chapters

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  1. A visitor among the ruins
  2. A surviving Roman empire
  3. Sea and empire
  4. Expansion and disease
  5. A new capital
  6. The site of Byzantium
  7. Building Constantinople
  8. Walls and refugees
  9. Attila approaches
  10. Repairing the walls
  11. Two halves of an empire
  12. The western collapse
  13. Refuge and ambition
  14. Justinian and his critics
  15. Church, silk and water
  16. Reconquest and its costs
  17. The limits of restoration
  18. Arab conquests
  19. Pressure by land and sea
  20. Fire and survival