How Successful Was The Byzantine Empire

Have you ever heard of The Byzantine Empire? Chances are, you haven’t and to most people’s surprise, the unheard of empire survived successfully for over 1,000 years. The Byzantine Empire was the civilization that was created when the eastern part of Rome broke off from the quickly falling empire of Rome. The Byzantine Empire was founded in 330 A.D and was ruled by Constantine. The three main aspects of the empire that induced the success of the Byzantine empire were: religion, education, government.

The first aspect of the empire that helped it prosper was religion. The Byzantine E mpire’s main religion was Christianity. This was initiated by the first emperor, Constantine. Constantine spread the religion by basing the legal system and law off of his Christian beliefs. When the laws were based on Christianity, crucifixion was banned along with going to the markets on Sunday and working at a public office, however working on a farm had not been banned Later, publicly displayed gladiator games were banned along with many other things that they believed God would not accept and would help the empire survive. Also, in The Byzantine Empire, Orthodox Christianity was created, this version of Christianity still exists today and continues to have beliefs that have been …show more content…
When Constantine was in power, he moved the capital to a city later named “Constantinople”. Constantinople was a much better place for the Byzantine government because it had thick walls surrounding it, so enemy attackers would be held back and would not be able to invade the capital . Not having the ability to invade prevented a situation in which the emperor would be over thrown and the empire would fall. Also, the capital happened to be located along major trade routes which brought people from other territories and civilizations to the empire boosting business and bringing in more money to fund the