BYZANTIUM POWER IN
THE MIDDLE AGES
The Byzantine
Empire is interesting from many points of view. Mostly I find it interesting
that the Roman institutions remained during the Middle Ages. While ignorance
and fanaticism took over the West, only City: Constantinople was the light and
was the military power of the time. It was during the Byzantine Empire to the
Greek World got its point of maximum expansion.
Respect of the
eastern survived the fall of Rome, Wallbank, W. et al wrote (1984, p. 173):
“In southeastern Europe, on a Peninsula
between the Black and Aegean seas, lies the modern-day city of Istanbul. On its
site, a Greek colony called Byzantium was begun in the 7th century
B.C. This colony fell under Roman control in 196 A.D.
Constantine, emperor of Rome from 306
to 337 A.D., ordered a new city built on the site of this Greek colony. In 330,
it became the second capital of the Roman Empire. The city was named
Constantinople, or the city of Constantine. It became a thriving metropolis and
the center of a new civilization, usually called Byzantine after the original Greek settlement.
The Byzantine Empire was the
continuation of the Roman Empire. After the death of Emperor Theodosius in 395,
two emperors ruled the Roman Empire –one in the east at Constantinople and one
in the west al Rome. While Germanic tribes invaded the western empire, the
eastern empire stood firm.”
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