The Roman Empire was divided into two parts in 395. The Westrern and the Eastern Roman Empire. The power of the emperors was weakened by the barbarians and the continuous quarrelling with one another. The Western part fell in 476 to the barbarians. Power shifted to the eastern part called Byzantine (Byzantine Empire=Eastern Roman empire). The name came from Byzantion, an ancient Greek seaport, on the site of which the Roman emperor Constantine founded a city called Constantinople. This city was created in 324 and became the capital of the empire which existed until its defeat by the Turks in 1453. There was central government in the Byzantine Empire: one emperor, one God, one religion. Culture, entertainment were rather similar to those of in Rome (theatres, baths, hippodromes, chariot races, taverns, etc). Latin was gradually replaced by Greek language, and the the Greek Orthodox Church was formed (it is Christian but not Roman, not Catholic). .
The Byzantine Empire lasted for a millennium.
It was known, while it existed, simply as the Roman Empire. In order to distinguish it from the Western Roman Empire, historians have taken to calling it the Byzantine Empire. This name refers to Byzantium, which was the original name of the city of Constantinople, the Eastern Roman Empire's capitol.
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Constantine I founded the Byzantine Empire, or the Eastern Roman Empire, on the shores on the Bosporus, in the city of Byzantium, which He renamed Constantinople after himself, in the year of 327 AD .
The Byzantine Empire was the eastern half of the Roman Empire that continued after the fall of the western half of the Roman Empire. The Byzantine Empire was heavily influenced by Greek and eastern elements to the point that Latin stopped being the used as the official government language and Greek was used instead. The Byzantine culture blended Greek and Oriental artistic influences to create its own unique blend and form of art and architecture.
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The Byzantines took over much of the land that once belonged to the Roman Empire, after the Roman's society collapsed.
Yes, the Byzantine empire did have some blinding cultures.
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1. Justinian codes. 2. Preserved Greek and Roman cultures. 3. Hagia Sophia.
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They were the same. The Byzantine was the eastern half of the Roman Empire.
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The Byzantine Empire preserved the cultural heritage of the two place Greece and Rome.
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The Byzantine Empire lasted for a millennium.
The Byzantine empire was the Roman empire, merely its eastern counterpart.