The byzentine Empire had a Controlled system. A high level Emperor that came from a god had ruled the empire. There was a religious ceremony to name him as the leader. This means that the religious and political power of the emperor were not subjected . In the Byzantine Empire, the society of the medieval Europe formed several and different regional kingdoms after the end of the Roman Empire. Although the leaders of these kingdoms were their higher rulers, their political power was shared with other powerful nobles. Which meant that they didn't have all the power to themselves. To add to that. the religious power of the pope had came back over all these kingdoms. The empire had trained the bureaucrats who were on meritocracy basis. These would help out with the government and how to run it. These authorities had made agreements with the nobles on who claims authority which is higher power. The nobles got there ranking on how much land they had or where they lived. In other words, this means that the nobles had made a duties that as there job they will have to make projects, making laws and also taxing people. The nobles had a lot of privileges that not all people had and you could tell on how high of a noble you are by where you lived. The religion had started to divide societies and then at the end they eventually ended up splitting them apart. But the patriarch and the pope always had the greatest power because they were the religious leaders.
