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The Roman Empire : The Byzantium Empire

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The Byzantium Empire was the Eastern addition to the Roman Empire during the Late Antiquity and The Middle Ages. Established in the Ancient Greek city Byzantion in 330 AD by the Roman Emperor Constantine as the new imperial capital of Rome. Furthermore, he had added duplicates of everything from Old Rome, such as the Coliseum and the Imperial Palace, not including the Pagan temples. The Byzantines had spoken Greek and had more Greek architecture and culture than Roman. The Byzantium Empire had survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. Byzantine was able to remain for a thousand years before subsequently in 1453 falling to the Ottoman Turks. The Byzantium empire was a phenomenal empire lasting almost 1,200 years, it had survived all the other great empires. Much more impressive than age was the influence and reach the empire had had on civilization. Christianity, literacy, beginnings of art, literature, and architecture from the Russians, Serbs, and the Bulgarians came from the inspiration of the Byzantines in a variable degree. Up until the eleventh century, Byzantine was a dominant power, but by the mid-eleventh century, the Byzantines were faced with an eastern invasion from the recently converted Muslim Seljuk Turks. The Turks had in a short amount of time conquered most of Central Asia, including Syria, Iran, all of Mesopotamia, and Palestine. Subsequently, they were also being attacked by the Normans from the west. This resulted

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