Strategic Geography
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·        Pre oil state had to be supported by primary agricultural zone – Ottoman almost all revenue from land tax, less from trade.  Needed Iraq or Egypt for last hegemony.

·        Didn’t need steppes, but steppes always plaguing.  Could not ignore nor conquer their neighbours – partial solutions.  Depending on b of p war, hostility or client states

·        Competition between states for agricultural control of key zones, theme of relations between settled people of near east and nomads of desert and steppe.  Important context for fortunes of C state.

Other Notes in this Category

1. Anastiasius between persia and mediterranean
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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