<span>C. People needed to know how to read in order to be devout practitioners of Islam.</span>
Basil I, also called the Macedonian and the founder of the
Macedonian dynasty of Byzantium, the dynasty whose rule was the most prosperous
time in the Byzantium history, started the revival of art and he ordered the
mosaic in order to, in his words, replace the one the impostors had broken.
