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What was the Byzantine Empire?

Constantine moved the capital east, and Rome refused to die — living on in Greek for eleven centuries as Christendom’s shield and library.

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The Roman Empire did not fall in 476. It crossed to the Bosphorus, learned Greek, and ran for another thousand years — outliving every kingdom that claimed to inherit it.

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