The Byzantine Empire in its heyday covered parts of Italy, the whole of Greece and the Balkan countries, Turkey, parts of what now is Syria and the Lebanon, and large coastal areas of northern Africa. The result was of course a mix of the many peoples that lived there and their cultures.
The court culture also was a mix, in this case of Latin an Greek.
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Justinian the Great was a Byzantine emperor. He wanted to revive the culture and power of the Byzantine Empire.
Their government, military, and their culture.
The Byzantine Empire in its heyday covered parts of Italy, the whole of Greece and the Balkan countries, Turkey, parts of what now is Syria and the Lebanon, and large coastal areas of northern Africa. The result was of course a mix of the many peoples that lived there and their cultures. The court culture also was a mix, in this case of Latin an Greek.
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it was Orthodox Christianity which had developed in the eastern part of the Roman Empire before its Byzantine period.
The Byzantine Empire preserved the cultural heritage of the two place Greece and Rome.
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When the empire split, Byzantine became its own entity. Over the years, the fall of the other half of the Roman Empire, it began to form its own culture in part because of the lack of Roman influence and abundance of Greek culture in the empire.
The Byzantine Empire was the continuation of the Roman Empire. Byzantine is a term which has been coined by historians to indicate the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western part. The latter fell under the weight of the invasions by the Germanic peoples. The latter continued for nearly 1,000 years. The people in question called their empire Roman Empire. The Byzantine heritage was classical (Greco-Roman) culture. After the fall of Rome it became more Greek in character. Greek replaced Latin as the official language. Orthodox Christianity played a deep role in shaping Byzantine culture
Earlier, Latin. But then they started to speak Greek.