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The Roman Empire did not fall in 476. In the east it carried on for almost another thousand years, with emperors in Constantinople who called themselves Romans, ran the world's most trusted gold coin, and defended their city with walls, diplomacy and a secret liquid fire that burned on water. Nobody living there ever used the word Byzantine.

Meet Justinian and Theodora, the Greens and Blues who nearly burned down the capital, the image-breakers, the brothers whose alphabet is still read by 250 million people, and the crusaders who sacked a Christian city in 1204. Follow the last emperor to the walls in 1453. You will see how much of our law, our books and our faith passed through this empire on the way to us, and why calling something byzantine is so unfair.

Levels

  1. 1 1. New Rome: Constantine and the Founding of Constantinople 5-question quiz
  2. 2 2. Justinian and Theodora 5-question quiz
  3. 3 3. Survival: Persians, Arabs and Greek Fire 5-question quiz
  4. 4 4. Icons and Iconoclasm 5-question quiz
  5. 5 5. Faith, Missionaries and the Slavic World 5-question quiz
  6. 6 6. Golden Age and Crisis: From Basil II to the Crusades 5-question quiz
  7. 7 7. 1204 and 1453 5-question quiz
  8. 8 8. Legacy: Law, Learning and the Word Byzantine 5-question quiz

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