It ruined most of their crops and most of the farmers left Georgia.
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A.The empire was regularly attacked by Arab Muslims.
The Byzantine Empire was a prized region to obtain for the Arab Muslims.
The Arab Muslim Empire regularly attacked the Byzantine Empire. The goal was to gain access to the Anatolia peninsula which was home to Constantinople. Constantinople was the trading center to Europe and and to Asia. Many emperors made the Byzantine Empire a goal and it fell in 1453 under the leadership of Mehmed II.
They are both, I believe, considered megapolis's
a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.
The founders saw the importance of a strong military to protect the country and its citizens, but they named the President, a civilian, the "commander in chief" of the armed services. They were ever mindful of checking and balancing power, and they did not want a military general to seize the government