what was the difference between the Byzantine Empire and the Roman Empire?

Answer 1

It is the Eastern part of the Roman Empire, which survived after the breakup of the Western Empire in the 5th century CE.

Scholars have called the empire Byzantine after the ancient name of its capital, Byzantium. In official terminology of the time, it was simply Roman, and its subjects were Romans and they maintained Roman traditions, symbols, and institutions.

Constantinople became a capital of the Roman Empire in 330 after Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor, refounded the city of Byzantium and named it after himself. Constantinople was renamed 'Istanbul' and is now the capital of the country Turkey.

Answer 2

Roman And Byzantine Empire

Answer 3

Depending upon how you view it, they are the same thing. Many people make the mistake of assuming the Roman empire ended in the 5th century, but it didn't. Only one part of the Roman empire ended - the part that was centred around Rome.
The Roman empire grew too big to govern from one capital, so it was decided to concentrate government for the western Roman empire in Rome, and government for the eastern Roman empire in Byzantium.
In the 4th century the Roman emperor Constantine I united the empire after many years of threatened fragmentation, but decided that the eastern capital should be the new capital of the entire Roman empire. Thus the city became known as Constantinople.
To cut a long story short, the Western part of the Roman empire weakened and by the 5th century it fell to the barbarians, and Western Europe's Dark Ages began.
What was left in the east is known as the Byzantine Empire. The emperors of the East regarded themselves as Romans, even though they spoke Greek. The Byzantine Empire survived for a thousand years until the capital Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
There is much ignorance about the Byzantine Empire because it was culturally at loggerheads with the "barbarian" West. The main difference was religion - the West was Catholic and claimed that the Byzantines were heathen because they wouldn't bow to the popes.
The Byzantine point of view was the exact opposite: the Byzantine Emperor was set above the church. Besides, the Byzantines saw their Orthodox version of Christianity as being superior in authority to the Catholics.
Another misconception is that Constantinople was renamed Istanbul by the Turks. The name Istanbul is based on the slang used to describe the capital by the Byzantines themselves. They referred to Constantinople as "The City" because it was, at the time, the greatest, richest, most powerful city in the world. In medieval Greek "to The City" was pronounced "istin poli"... hence the name Istanbul.

Answer 4

The Roman Empire was huge and owned all the land around the Mediterranean. Then the Emperor Constantine had one ruler rule the eastern part and one the western because it was too large for one person. Then the west was taken over, while the eastern part lived on for a while called the Byzantine Empire.

Answer 5

The Roman empire was centered in Rome. The Byzantine empire was centered in Byzantium. What are their similarities?

Answer 6

byzantine emoire is sprated from the roman empire.

byzantine is the other roman empire in the east.

Answer 7

Istanbul is not the capital of Turkey. Ankara is.

Answer 8

the spelling of the first words.