domestic problems and foreign pressure

Question 1

domestic problems

Answer 1

• -arose from the theme system
• -generals and aristocrats intermarried to make an elite class
• -they rebelled and resisted imperial government
• -disrupted local economies and
• -declining free peasantry
• -less recruits and taxes

Question 2

foreign challenges

in the west

Answer 2

• • from the West

- -normans and western europe people set out to recapture jerusalem and other holy site

Question 3

foreign challenges in the east

Answer 3

turkish people invaded

• -muslin saljuqs– sent invaders into anatolia
• -byzantine factions turned on each other in a civil war allowing the saljuqs to get in
• -Anatolia is lost and it was the breadbasket, wealth, and military force

Question 4

battle of manzikert

Answer 4

byzantine army is defeated by the Saljuqs