![]() Named after its seat of power during the great majority of its history. So first let's thinkĪbout the center of power. Now with that review out of the way, let's think about how the Byzantine Empire was the same and differentįrom the Roman Empire. Which you can see continues on for another 1000 years after the fall of the western Roman Empire. Of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern Roman Empire, Gets sacked by the Ottomans and that's the official end Roman Empire is Constantinople and in 1453, that also Time of the Byzantine Empire or you could say the eastern And we can go all the way to 1453 where all that was left at the Also during the Fourth Crusades, western crusaders sack Constantinople. That the Muslim Turks make further inroads into As we go even further in time,Īs we enter into the second millennium, we can see Peninsula but then over time the Byzantine Empire contracts,Įspecially in the east, it has to contend with Significant portions of the west including the Italian Resurgence under Justinian, he's able to capture Period of the Roman Empire by calling it the Byzantine Empire. Later that historians tried to separate this And once again, they did notĬall themselves the Byzantines, they called themselves the Romans, they called themselves the Roman Empire. The eastern Roman Empire with its capital atĬonstantinople, continues. Of the western Roman Empire and the west becomesįragmented, a bunch of various Germanic kingdoms, but But as we've talkedĪbout in multiple videos, in 476, you have the fall And most historians mark theīeginning of the Byzantine Empire with the rule ofĬonstantine, who moves the capital to Byzantium, it gets As you can see from anĪdministrative point of view, even though it was considered one empire, it was already being governed separately, the west being governed from Rome, the east being governedįrom Constantinople. ![]() This is what things look like at around the year 400. Was the same between them and then what changed over time? So let's just do a review, Was one unified western and eastern Roman EmpireĪnd then what we later call the Byzantine Empire, so what The different elements of continuity and changeīetween what we consider the Roman Empire when it Is a bit of a deep dive to make sure we understand Roman Empire after its fall and they even call Have several videos talking about the ByzantineĮmpire which is really just the continuation of the
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