Byzantine Empire
Christian imperial autocracy
Byzantine Empire leans hardest toward Religious, Authority and Traditional.
The 12 axes, with receipts
Centralised bureaucracy run from Constantinople.
Autocratic emperors chosen by God, army or palace intrigue.
Heresy was persecuted and riots crushed.
Saw itself as the one true Roman empire.
Preferred diplomacy and bribery to battle, but fought for a thousand years.
Absorbed peoples through Greek language and Orthodoxy.
Imperial estates alongside aristocratic land.
Guilds and prices tightly regulated by the city prefect.
Guarded state monopolies such as silk.
The emperor was the Church’s protector.
Strict Orthodox morality.
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