Or - if you are feeling a little adventurous: Do something based
on the collapse of Meditteranean unity after the 602 mutiny.
- The mutiny itself, the installation of Phokas
- The collapse of the Danube frontier and the fortification lines
- The Persian invasions
- Heraklios's coup d'etat
- the counter attack (one might term "the Crusade before the Crusades"), the use of religion as propoganda, and the restoration of the True Cross in Jerusalem
- The Islamic surprise.
If you think about it, it is quite a series of events within a short
period (from 602 until until the 645 final evacuation of Alexandria -
all within 43 years). Imagine the sense of panic within the
empire as calamity after calamity befalls the realm, acompained by the
permanent loss of the Levant and Egypt. Heraklios himself, a man
who fought so hard to achieve all the victories of
the Great War, only to see everything collapse before his eyes.....
Again, if you are feeling adventurous..