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The Byzantine Empire did not lead to the Middle Ages so much as it was a product of the Middle Ages.

The Byzantine Empire was not given that name until the 17th century. Prior to that it was called the Roman Empire, and it was a country that remained from that empire. The problem was that historians needed a way to distinguish it from the Roman Empire as it existed during the time of when it effectively enclosed the Mediterranean Sea. Its nature had changed in a number of important ways, perhaps the single most important being that it was essentially Greek in nature rather than Greco-Roman or Latin.

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