A history of the ancient world, for high schools and academies . Europe^ p. H<W H ow ow Hc/: t—I u Decay of Roman Vigor 433 which transformed the hordes of eastern and northernbarbarians that settled on its borders. A sense of nation-ality was aroused among the motley populations that fellunder its spell; Byzantine imperialism, by infusing ancientGraeco-Oriental forms with the Christian spirit, broughtabout the long-deferred reahzation of the poHcy of Alex-ander the Great (§ 271). The world, east and west, owesmuch to the Constantinople of Justinian and his succes-sors. 504. The reviva

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A history of the ancient world, for high schools and academies . Europe^ p. H<W H ow ow Hc/: t—I u Decay of Roman Vigor 433 which transformed the hordes of eastern and northernbarbarians that settled on its borders. A sense of nation-ality was aroused among the motley populations that fellunder its spell; Byzantine imperialism, by infusing ancientGraeco-Oriental forms with the Christian spirit, broughtabout the long-deferred reahzation of the poHcy of Alex-ander the Great (§ 271). The world, east and west, owesmuch to the Constantinople of Justinian and his succes-sors. 504. The revival of imperial vigor was only the successors of Justinian the state began again todecline. One cause of this was internal—public spirit andpatriotism could not be maintained. The compHcated ad- imperialministrative system of Diocletian, while it preserved the ^^ *^*Empire as a structure, sapped its inner life. The cost ofmaintaining so great a body of officials was an enormousdrain. Taxation grew by leaps and bounds accompaniedby scarcity of money, increas

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