Which of the following were members of the aristocracy in byzantine empire?

Wealthy Landowners is the correct Answer.

Explanation:

The Byzantine Empire was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the Eastern provinces. It was a result of the fragmentation that came with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

The empire lasted through Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The empire was the most powerful economic and military force in Europe at the time.

social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live