Analyzing Miscellaneous Examples From The Byzantine Empire

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What is the significance of analysing miscellaneous examples from the Byzantine Empire? This question will be answered using different examples of architecture, engineering and design of the Byzantine Empire, which will be discussed through their varied forms, function, materials and their contextual uses of these examples, in the time of the Byzantines.
The examples that will be discussed are those through architectural design, Hagia Sofia and the Binbirdirek Cistern. Both come from the city of Constantinople currently known as Istanbul. The Hagia Sophia was one of the largest churches of its time and designed with no

The counterweight trebuchet (How to build a Trebuchet: History of the Trebuchet, no date), was a simple machine that made a great difference in times of war, the lever was a simple mechanism, which gave mechanical advantage when a fulcrum or pivot point was used this meant there was less effort needed to lift heavy objects (Counterweight Trebuchet, no date). A large counterweight trebuchet could throw a weight of 300kg over 275 meters (Trebuchet, no date).
These structures had wide four sided bases which lead to narrower tops with massive cylinders which lay above, the cylinders were covered in iron and attached to lengths of wood which had slings, when these slings were raised and large rocks could be shot (Byzantines, Avars and the introduction of the Trebuchet,