CIVILIZATION
ROMAN
Question
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about a.d.350
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from a.d.1000-1500
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around 150b.c.
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in the a.d. 500s
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Byzantine Empire perhaps reached its peak power under the rule of Justinian I, who reconquered Italy and other parts of the western Mediterranean in the 500s.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Byzantine Empire is the only empire west of China that survived from ancient times to the birth of the modern age; it continued on long after “true” Rome fell. At its height, it included 1.5 million square miles in parts of Africa, Asia, and Europe.
Detailed explanation-3: -Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived for a thousand years after the western half had crumbled into various feudal kingdoms and which finally fell to Ottoman Turkish onslaughts in 1453.
Detailed explanation-4: -Rise of the Byzantine Empire When the emperor Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Byzantium (which was later renamed “Constantinople") in 330 AD, a process began that would eventually lead to the Eastern Roman Empire becoming a political entity that was completely independent of the West.