Throughout time, there have been many different cultures and empires, some of which may require the average man to work, or the female to work, or arranged marriages and so forth. However, it seems as if the Byzantine Empire covered the “whole nine yards.” Life as a Byzantine was a lot different than most would expect, they had different beliefs and worked hard for their beliefs and stayed true to them, in all courses of their culture. The Byzantine’s were very hard workers, they worked for what they believed in, and they worked literally in the fields. Mostly, they worked by hand, they tilled lands by hand rather than using the horses because they believed that it would increase the speed of labor. However, only sixteen percent of the land
