Suppose you visited a marketplace in Constantinople in 1116, suppose you visited a marketplace in Constantinople in 1395. Could you tell The Empire had fallen on hard times by the difference in the quality and variety of the things being sold?

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Additionally, how had the high Byzantine noble families been affected by the ebbs and flows of the Byzantine Empire? The Doukas, the Komnenos, etc. How did they fare and where were they in the final century of the Byzantine Empire? What happened to those families after the Byzantine Empire fell, if it still applies.