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• 532 – Justinian tries to break loose from circle – enormous um money to East – beats Vandals and then contends with Ostrogoths and Persian almost simultaneously. Did he know it was a Mediterranean based empire saving?

• Time and time again Byzantine mastery of the sea mentioned – advantages over Goths.

• Rouge conc. That Roman naval power in Med disappeared 0 as wars dragged on thalassokratia exposed as mirage – East could not afford expensive naval outings to the Med as wars in west dragged on. Justinian’s army trapped on mainland without supplies.

• Successors abandon West – new civilisation in West, not because Med blockaded, East could not take advantage of it, Babas rudimentary eco. Dev that unable to embark of grand commerce there without Byzantine stimulation.

• Byzantine reaping poisonous harvest of dilemma – northern frontier Avars and Slavs and east great powers letting blood until triumphant advent of Islam.

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