Constantine's Iconoclasm

He goes on the offensive against the Arabs. You're at least two major expeditions into the transcaucasus. And also re-organizes the financial system so that he puts the empire in a trajectory of military growth, security, and economic prosperity. So for these reasons, he's in many ways a kind of second founder of the Eastern Empire and deserves credit for that. I'm not sure he needed to pick those fights with the Bulgarians that he did. He kind of used them as punching bags and didn't really win any kind of decisive victory. These are bulgars, this is pre-conversion. The bulgars entrace, but if that was his goal, it