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Problems in the Empire
- Justinian's ruinous human and financial terms, plague 542 kills loads, de-population, over-extension, over-spending post Justinian period territorial losses and administrative disintegration aristocracy lost civic power and new class soldier-landowner emerges, place civil provincial governor taken by military commander leads to many usurpers
- Structural Changes; demographic factors, plagues background to Iconoclasm wide-ranging changes in Byzantine world iconoclasm attempt to fund more stability and certainty in changing world stability lies in word of emperor, not holy man or icon
- Social changes late 7th and early 8th centuries shift centres of Byzantine empire toward oriental population expense traditional urban centres of Aegean regionalisation armies, support local Iconoclast emperors
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