World Cultures

The Latin Christian, Byzantine and Islamic cultures are connected on a continuum if one looks at the decline of the Roman Empire, and the development of the Byzantine Empire and Islam during the early years of the middle ages. The Byzantine Empire represented the eastern or Greek division of the Roman Empire. Formed in the late 3rd century AD, the Byzantine Empire underwent two periods of civil unrest before being united as one under Constantine the Great. Constantine mandated a second capital fashioned after Rome be erected at Byzantium, to be called Constantinople. With western Rome in decline, the eastern division soon became the dominant one. One of the biggest differences between Latin Christian civilization and the Byzantine Empire was that the Roman history was modeled around paganism or polytheism. Such was not to be the case in the east. Constantinople was not only Greek as opposed to Latin, but it was also firmly Christian from its inception, a fact further severing its ties to the west. As Rome continued to decline and eventually fell, so the fortunes of the Byzantine Empire rose. In the early Middle Ages the bishops of Rome would try to keep Rome as the leader of the Christian world, at least where religion was concerned, but this did not mean taking assistance from Byzantium, “In 722 Pope Hadrian I ceased to date official papal documents by the regnal year of the emperor of Byzantiu

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