. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. CHAPTER VIILEO THE ISAURIAN TO JOANNES ZIMISCES [717-969 ] With the accession of Leo the Isaurian to the throne of Constantinoplea new era opens in the history of the Eastern Empire. The progress ofsociety had been deliberately opposed by imperial legislation. The legisla-tors of the empire were persuaded that each order and profession of its citi-zens should be fixed by hereditary succession, and an attempt had been ma
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages:. CHAPTER VIILEO THE ISAURIAN TO JOANNES ZIMISCES [717-969 ] With the accession of Leo the Isaurian to the throne of Constantinoplea new era opens in the history of the Eastern Empire. The progress ofsociety had been deliberately opposed by imperial legislation. The legisla-tors of the empire were persuaded that each order and profession of its citi-zens should be fixed by hereditary succession, and an attempt had been madeto divide the population into castes. But the political laws not only impov-erished but depopulated the empire, and threatened the dissolution of thevery elements of society. Under their operation the Western Empire becamethe prey of the smaller northern nations, and the Eastern Empire was on theverge of being overrun by the Saracen invaders.« Leo III mounted the throne, and under his government the empire notonly ceased to decline, but even began to regain much of its early modifications of the old Roman authority developed new energyin the empir
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