How did the Byzantine empire manage to persevere for nearly 200 years after its restoration in 1261,despite the fact that Constantinople was ravaged after the Fourth Crusade and was a shadow of its former glory,a string of weak emperors ruled and the Empire was in a near constant state of civil war?
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