Byzantine Empire History
For more than eleven centuries, an empire that called itself Rome ruled from a city on the Bosporus. It outlasted the western empire by nearly a thousand years, survived plague, Persian invasion, Arab conquest and a crusader army that sacked its own capital, and passed on a law code, a form of Christianity, a great church called Hagia Sophia and a library of Greek books that might otherwise have v...
For more than eleven centuries, an empire that called itself Rome ruled from a city on the Bosporus. It outlasted the western empire by nearly a thousand years, survived plague, Persian invasion, Arab conquest and a crusader army that sacked its own capital, and passed on a law code, a form of Christianity, a great church called Hagia Sophia and a library of Greek books that might otherwise have v...
