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The Byzantines were both Roman and Greek. With the takeover of the western half of the Empire by the Germanic peoples in the fifth century CE, the eastern empire centred on Byzantium WAS the Roman Empire. Its inhabitants were Greek, but they saw themselves as Roman. So the 'preservation' was simply continuing as they had been - speaking Latin and Greek, maintaining libraries, pursuing cultural activities as usual.

Interestingly, as the Byzantine Empire contracted, faded and eventually ceased to exist, much of the knowledge was preserved and passed on to us not by the European Christian countries which were mired in the Dark Age, but by the enlightened Islamic countries in Spain and the Middle East, before they fell back into their own Dark Age and left the Enlightenment in Europe to struggle into existence.

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