The countries in the world today revolve around a very complicated for m of government.  Most people in the community and on the political level, believe in some sort of god or creator.  All of our rules, political systems, and our religions, started on a very basic level that grew to become the more complicated well organized efficient world of today.  The Byzantine empire, Started in the eastern part of the roman empire, was one of the most productive, well organized empires in the world at there time.  This Powerful empire lived for one thousand years and here was the land that most of our great religions and political system came from.
	Rome was a very strong empire that continued to grow and grow.  As the population of Rome began to be to much for one head ruler, the emperor divided Rome into two halves, east and west, to allow better control over the growing population.  After the split, loss of easy communication and distance between the two halves.  This caused the roman empire to fall. On the other hand there were now two very successful new empires that had Rome as a teacher.  The eastern half, ruled by Constantine, was know as the Byzantine empire.
	Trade for this new empire was very efficient.  In the capital, Constantinople, was a central trading post called Mese.  Mese means middle, and it allowed trade from all land around, such as Africa, Asia and Europe, to bring in there goods and provide the Byzantine empire with much needed recourses that were unavailable otherwise.  Recourses were not the only things traded in the Mese though merchants also brought their own religions when they came and some began to spread throughout