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[历史学] 题目序号 题型归类 第1题 中心主旨题型 第2题 细节推导题型 第3题 段落间关系题型 第4题 审题定位题型 第5题 段落间关系与指代词题型 Between the eighth and eleventh centuries A. D., the Byzantine Empirestaged an almost unparalleled economic and cultural revival, a recovery that isall the more striking because it followed a long period of severe internaldecline. By the early eighth century, the empire had lost roughly two-thirds ofthe territory it had possessed in the year 600, and its remaining area wasbeing raided by Arabs and Bulgarians, who at times threatened to takeConstantinople and extinguished the empire altogether. The wealth of the stateand its subjects was greatly diminished, and artistic and literary productionhad virtually ceased. By the early eleventh century, however, the empire hadregained almost half of its lost possessions, its new frontiers were secure,and its influence extended far beyond its borders. The economy had recovered,the treasury was full, and art and scholarship had advanced. To consider the Byzantine military, cultural, and economic advances asdifferentiated aspects of a single phenomenon is reasonable. After all, thesethree forms of progress have gone together in a number of states andcivilizations. Rome under Augustus and fifth-century Athens provide the mostobvious examples in antiquity. Moreover, an examination of the apparent sequentialconnections among military, economic, and cultural forms of progress might helpexplain the dynamics of historical change. | 
