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Shouldn't that be post Western empire collapsing - the Eastern Empire lasted almost another thousand years?
by arethuza 3y ago
Shouldn't that be post Western empire collapsing - the Eastern Empire lasted almost another thousand years?
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoIt's weird to think that the Eastern Roman Empire only fell 39 years before Columbus discovered America. (At least, it's weird for me. I expect that the Roman Empire - even the eastern version - was a long time earlier.)
- kuchenbecker 3y agoAnd the Russian empire is arguably a continuation of Byzantium / third Roman Empire with a Czar (Caesar) until the Russian Revolution.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoThe first czar was crowned in 1547 (104 years after the end of the Eastern Empire), so I'm not sure that it's a "continuation" in any real way. It may be a continuation in peoples' minds, but it's not a continuation in the way the Eastern Empire was.
- angiosperm 3y agoThe Russians would have wanted you to think so, anyway. Likewise, Fat Carl in France.
- TylerE 3y agoThe eastern wasn’t much of an empire the last few hundred years. Its influence barely extended beyond Constantinople.
- TheCoelacanth 3y agoIn 400 CE, the empire controlled the entire Mediterranean coast, all of modern day France, Spain, Italy, England and the entire Balkans. In 717 CE, the Eastern Empire controlled most of modern day Turkey and some scattered enclaves in Greece and Italy. If that's not a collapse, I don't understand the meaning of the word.