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In what way was the Byzantine Empire a departure from the Roman Empire?

Answer 1

Well, Rome split into East and West. There were two Roman Empires for some time (something like a couple centuries). Then the West collapsed, and East Rome continued until about the Renaissance (1453).

Over time, the Empire changed character. Many scholars divide its history into three main sections: East Rome, when it still had most of its old character; Imperial Byzantium, when it experienced a resurgence of aggressive activity (somewhere around 800-1050 IIRC), and then Late Byzantium, where it entered into a slow decline that it never pulled itself out of (the sacking of Constantinople and chopping up of the Empire by Christians in the Fourth Crusade, 1203, probably was a point of no return).

But even through all of that, even at the point where the beleaguered city-state of Constantinople was surrounded by and about to fall to the Ottoman Empire, it was still the same remnant of the Roman Empire that split from the West a millennium earlier.

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