What would the Byzantine Empire have to do to survive?

[marka]

Empire ladies and gentlemen Empire! It means ae mix in a boiling pot and someone holding the lid.
Empires are NOT built and maintaineded on tolerance!
Every group could argue his religious or tribla cause to break free and get its autonomy.
Empires to not survive. They simply disintegraded if not dismantled by stronger empires.

The only chance of survival for each group in the Empire on the late 11th early 12th century would be to form aatrong national state supported by a national army. The Lascarides failed that and the Bulgrian and Serb rulers fought for the fenake of becoming Roman emperors!!

If we follow Gibbon the empire survived with Papacy and that not for long.

And the "tolerant" Ottoma empire failed whent its various elements feelled strong enough to chalenge it and make it impossible to to fight its external enemies. In the end enough educated rich Cristian subjects saw better chances for advncement rather that supporting an Islamic ruler.

Kind regards

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it would be better to say an empires people are comprised of three groups-the imperialists,the republicans and the silent majority