Did you know that most classroom teachers didn’t teach their students about the Byzantines due to a personal bias toward the Byzantines? The Byzantines ruled from 330 C.E. until 1453. After the Roman Empire fell, the emperor Constantine moved the capital from Rome to Byzantium. Byzantium, also known as Constantinople and Istanbul, is now located in present day Turkey. After Constantine built up Byzantium to be a very nice place, he named it after himself; Constantinople. During the Byzantines 1,000 year history, they achieved many things that most people haven’t learned, because of the lack of focus on the Byzantines in schools. There are at least four good reasons to study the Byzantines such as how they provided protection from invaders,
