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In what ways was the Byzantine Empire an extension of the Roman Empire?
In what ways was the Byzantine Empire an extension of the Roman Empire and in what ways was it not?
Well, Rome split into East and West. There were two Roman Empires for some time (something like a couple centuries). Then the West collapsed, and East Rome continued until about the Renaissance (1453).
Over time, the Empire changed character. Many scholars divide its history into three main sections: East Rome, when it still had most of its old character; Imperial Byzantium, when it experienced a resurgence of aggressive activity (somewhere around 800-1050 IIRC), and then Late Byzantium, where it entered into a slow decline that it never pulled itself out of (the sacking of Constantinople and chopping up of the Empire by Christians in the Fourth Crusade, 1203, probably was a point of no return).
But even through all of that, even at the point where the beleaguered city-state of Constantinople was surrounded by and about to fall to the Ottoman Empire, it was still the same remnant of the Roman Empire that split from the West a millennium earlier.
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