The mediterranean and financial liabilites towards persia
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·        Clear paid 30,000 soldi a year to Persia (Syriac Chronicle of Joshua Stylites, Menander Protector – until 562- very unwise not to pay this at time of going to war with much larger sums.  Negligible amount in comparison – now wonder Persians went to war.

·        Must have been something else in these payments.

·        532 – Justinian pays 110,000 pounds of gold for allegedly eternal peace – advance payment of 264 years.  20 years later, after 10 of war, much more demands

·        502-6 war initiated by Anastasius’ refusal to grant Kawad 1 loan.

·        Advance payments – when Persia in need or pressure might be bought to bear + diplomatic costs, made alliance unattractive.

·        441-442 – T2 under pressure from Huns in north, great expedition of war and see why not afford want to pay Persian esp Yadzgard insistence on advance payments - decision intelligible.

·        Psychological effects – we see Firdawsi’s Shahnameh seeing payments as a tribute (Persian propaganda) – Joshua Stylites has to say not a tribute.

·        Not surprising that they were never safe to aid the west – when were Persians going to come up with an excessive demand?  Paying demands tarnished reputation as giving in to Persia – but war more costly.  Attempts by end of Yazdgard to create a defence system autonomous of Persian influence, at whatever cost, attempts to resist payment and compliance.

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2. Attempts at Disengagement with the alliance with Persia
3. Byzantium between the mediterranean and fertile crescent
4. epilogue: justinian and the reconquest of the mediterranean
5. Key Points
6. Marcian and leo i between eprsia and the mediterranean
7. Pirenne and the Mediterranean
8. Strategic Geography
9. The crisis of 441-42 and the byzantine political dilemma
10. the mare nostrum as an economic, political and cultural entity in greek and latin sources
11. The mediterranean and financial liabilites towards persia
12. The mediterranean and the literary tradition of the roman world
13. The mediterranean and the literary tradition of the roman world
14. The vandals and the decline of mediterranean navigation
15. Theodoisus ii, yazdgard i and the mediterranean
16. Two great powers in Late antiquity : A comparison
17. Whittow – making of orthodox byzantium

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