what did the byzantine empire preserve for the cultural heritage?

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Answer 1

The church buildings, church traditions and icons used in the Eastern Orthodox Church. The cities, government and systems found across their empire, many of which are still in use today, though by different names because the rulers have changed several times in history. An example is that Constantinople became Istanbul, but the buildings that weren't destroyed while being conquered are still there, including some of the churches. The road system was never changed, only upgraded as time went by. The people themselves stayed mostly the same. Farmers then are still farmers now, though they may use better technology. Try looking for more in an encyclopedia, Google search or other Internet means. I shouldn't have to be doing your work.

Answer 2

The Byzantine empire is what we call the Empire that was based in Constantinople and grew out of the ruins of the Roman Empire. They called themselves Romans. Until the Byzantine Empire was finally conquered and became part of the Ottoman empire, the inhabitants were, according to them, living in the holy Roman empire. Although the language had slowly changed from Latin to Greek, the church had broken from Rome, and the culture was very different, the Byzantine empire helped preserve the Roman cultural heritage. Many legal, philosophical and cultural traditions were maintained, and many others were recorded, studied, and preserved. A lot of what we know about the Roman empire (and the Greeks) today comes to us through Byzantine documents.

Answer 3

The Byzantine empire came into being after the Roman Emperor, Constantine, established the capital of his empire in Constantinople. Rome remained powerful, and the empire was logically divided into a Western Empire (near Rome) and an Eastern Empire (near Constantinople).

The Western Empire was subsequently overrun by barbarians, and declined. This is what is typically considered the "fall of the Roman Empire."

The Eastern Empire, now known as the Byzantine Empire (after the original name of the city before Constantinople, Byzantium), continued to survive and thrive into the fifteenth century.

As a result, the Byzantine Empire preserved much of the intellectual and cultural legacy of the Roman Empire. This includes preserving much of the scientific, mathmatical, and phillisophical work of the Greeks and Romans (most of the documents in the Western Empire were destroyed during the dark ages) that we have today.

Answer 4

Roman law. Around 600 AD Byzantine emperor Justinian the Great ordered a large compilation of Roman law. The result was a large work in four volumes called “corpus iurus civilis”, which has been the major source of knowledge of Roman law.

A few copies of the work reached northern Italy as a result of Justinian’s failed attempt to conquer Italy and reestablish the old Roman Empire in Western Europe. Around 1000 AD Italian scholars started studying the corpus iuris civilis in Bolonia, specially the volume called Digest. Eventually, the knowledge of Roman law and the analysis and comments of the scholars about Roman law spread through Europe and became law itself. All modern legal systems of continental Europe and Latin America (and Japan and Turkey) evolved from the corpus iuris civilis.

Answer 5

Its unquestionably A. while the western Roman empire fall in 457, the Greek eastern area of the empire survived. Byzantines had Greek foundation & they spoke Greek. besides, their state replace into the only genuine successor of the unique Roman Empire.

Answer 6

1.-the creation of cyrillic alphabet.
2.- the preservation of ancient Greek manuscripts, specially those ones from medicine, history and culture by Byzantine scholars, were the most important contributions of Byzantium to posterity.
3.- the orthodox church
4.- art and architecture of that era.

Answer 7

Pagan traditions above anything else:
Divnity of Jesus
Statues of Jesus
His supposed death on cross
Supposed Salvation
Destruction of Bible
SUNday as a holiday(They were sun worshippers)
Banned all the other Gospels but 4 whose original text is a matter of dispute ...
And MOOREE

Answer 8

Byzantine art & architecture(mosaic)