How Rome fell and Byzantium continued for another Millennium | Sean Gabb

This talk is from the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. By following through on reforms hoped for since the Gracchi Brothers - especially regarding the land - the Byzantine Empire was able to bounce back from a multi-front crisis that would have destroyed a lesser civilization.
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Thanks for reminding me that the Romans split the west and the east before the Christians did.