What is the difference between western Europe and the byzantine?

Answer 1

The Byzantine Empire was the eastern part of the Roman Empire that carried on after the fall of Rome. Western Europe was the area that was where the fall of Rome happened. During this time, the Byzantine Empire was conquering and prospering while the West was in chaos. The West was in chaos because the Roman Empire was in control for 1,000 years and it just suddenly collapsed due to Barbaric attacks. The east, however, was able to keep stable throughout the madness and went on to rule for another 1,000 years.

Answer 2

The eastern church was the only Church of the Byzantine Empire. The eastern Church was the church of the eastern part of the Roman Empire. The western church was the church of the western part of the Roman Empire. At the time of the Romans they were called western or Latin and eastern or Greek branches of the Catholic church. At that time this was a church which subscribed to the Nicaean creed. This creed had a particular interpretation of the trinity and opposed different interpretations by different Christian sects, particularly the Arian Christians. After these two churches split they came to be called Orthodox and Catholic respectively.

Byzantine Empire is a term coined by historians to indicate the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western part of the Roman Empire. The Romans themselves did not use this term. They just had the term Roman Empire. The eastern part of the Roman Empire continued to exist for another 1,000 year after the fall of the western part.

The term Byzantine is derived from Byzantium, the name of the Greek city which was redeveloped, turned into the capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire and renamed Constantinople by Constantine the Great in 330. It is used to indicate the fact that not long after the fall of the west, this empire became centred on Greece and Greek in character after it lost most of its non-Greek territories. Greek replaced Latin as the official language of this empire in 620, some 150 years after the fall of the west.

Answer 3

Modern historians have coined the term Byzantine to refer to the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The Eastern Roman Empire covered Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, part of Romania, the Middle East and Egypt.

This empire became centred on Greece, especially after the loss of most of its non-Greek territories with the Arab conquest of the Middle East south of Turkey and Egypt and the Bulgars' conquest of part of the Balkans. The official language of the empire was switched from Latin to Greek.

This empire fought to regain the part of the Mediterranean which had been lost by the Western Empire, but lost them again, loosing its connections with the classical Roman Empire.

The word Byzantine is derived from Byzantium, the original Greek town which was turned into the capital of the Eastern Empire by Constantine I and came to be called Constantinople