HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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Constantine moved the capital from Rome to ____ which he renamed ____
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Byzantium; Constantinople
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Constantinople; Byzantium
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Byzantium; Rome
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Byzantium; London
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Byzantium took on the name of Kōnstantinoupolis ("city of Constantine", Constantinople) after its refoundation under Roman emperor Constantine I, who transferred the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium in 330 and designated his new capital officially as Nova Roma ( ) ‘New Rome’.
Detailed explanation-2: -He built a new imperial residence at Byzantium and renamed the city Constantinople after himself (the laudatory epithet of “New Rome” came later, and was never an official title).
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