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 | | Justinian, to whom Kavadh had written in a characteristic letter, "Kavadh, king of kings and lord of the Eastern sun, to Flavius Justinian Caesar, lord of the Western moon," secured peace by the payment of regular tribute to the Eastern neighbor, so as to obtain a free hand for the reconquest of the Western Empire. |
 | | Nor is there any evidence that Kavadh I (488-531), even in the early stages of his support of the Mazdakite movement, had gone beyond the distribution of the property of some of the nobles. |
 | | To speak of the sixth century as a period of exhaustion of the Jewish people was justified only at a time when Jewish history was equated with the history of Jewish letters, and it was assumed (erroneously) that the so-called Saboraic period was one of nearly complete intellectual stagnation. |
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