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- Rationing system does not help the mobility of Byzantines against Muslims
- Question marks over command structure and logistics
- Cases of non-payment – Arab stipends, waggoners in Ctesiphon – 628 – fiscal and financial difficulties.
- Persian occupation not totally destructive in Palestine – yes Jerusalem but very little elsewhere.
- Interlude of Persian occupation no economically or politically favourable to late Roman provinces – temp.
- Persian occupation disruptive p,s,e long term consequences not ruinous. Delicate and difficult process local recover had begun – no total restoration of status of economy, society, culture prior to wars with Persia possible.
- Empire not in state of collapse at moment of first Islamic raids – fiscally, psychologically and militarily unstable – potentially volatile. Decline and disintegration not inevitable – events overwhelmed a society that did not welcome change and wanted to perpetuate late Roman institutions, mentality and internal status quo.
- Problems: Avaro-Slavic threat grows in the Balkans, empire lost any hold Spanish coastline, military forces spread thinly in Africa, serious danger from Berber and other tribesmen. – Insufficient resources to recover Lombardy.
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