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Byzantium Is Rome: The Eastern Empire's Thousand-Year Continuation
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Rome didn't end in 476 — the Eastern Roman Empire survived for a thousand more years, and the people inside it never stopped calling themselves Romans. This episode traces Byzantium's true Roman identity, Justinian's audacious reconquest, and the legal legacy that shaped the modern world.
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Most people think Rome ended in four seventy-six. One deposed emperor, the lights going out, civilization collapsing into silence.
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