Many factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantine Empire. It had a good infrastructure system that funneled agricultural ... In addition to protecting Europe from eastern invasions, ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting ... denying the accusation of caesaropapism and celebrating Byzantine art and culture, but no one has gone as far as ...

Darius the Great, King of the Persians, came up with the first art political logo, with Alexander the Great later expanding on the concept by imprinting his face on coins that flooded his empire.