WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Even though the Western Roman Empire, which was centered around Rome, collapsed, the Eastern Roman Empire survived as the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine Empire lasted for a millennium after the fall of the Roman Empire, ending with the Ottoman conquests in 1453.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, lasted for over 1100 years, from 330-1453.

Detailed explanation-4: -Historians first used the term “Byzantine” as a label for the later years of the Roman Empire in 1557, 104 years after the empire’s collapse, when the German historian Hieronymus Wolf published his work Corpus Historiæ Byzantinæ, a collection of historical sources.