Western Civilization I / Unit 9 WC1 0801 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Romans Who Never Called Themselves Byzantine
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The idea
The eastern Empire lasted a thousand years past four seventy-six, and its people called themselves Romans, never Byzantines. The anchor finds it under-remembered because it was absorbed into the Ottoman world and cut off from the Western tradition.
In practice
Germanic kings as its formal vassals into the seventh century.
Where people slip
The exam files Byzantium under medieval history. Its own view was Roman continuity.
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