Which of the following best states the central idea of the passage
A．The Byzantine Empire was a unique case in which the usual order of military and economic revival preceding cultural revival was reversed.
B．The economic, cultural, and military revival in the Byzantine Empire between the eighth and eleventh centuries was similar in its order to the sequence of revivals in August Rome and fifth - century Athens.
C．The revival of the Byzantine Empire between the eighth and eleventh centuries shows cultural rebirth preceding economic and military revival, the reverse of the commonly accepted order of progress.
D．The eighth - century revival of Byzantine learning is an inexplicable phenomenon, and its economic and military precursors have yet to be discovere