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The western half of Rome was crumbling, so Constantine I created a new empire on the ancient Greek colony of Byzantium.
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The Roman Empire was split in two, Leaving the Western half the Easter half made Constantinople the capital of the Empire.
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The Western Empire falls and the eastern empire officially gets the name of the Byzantine empire.
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Justinian regains parts of the fallen Roman Empire, consisting of Northern Africa, Italy, and Spain. he also remakes the old Roman laws and makes them into one document. He also constructed the Hagia Sophia
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He became an official general in 527, he was essential in the retake of the old Rome.
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The blues and greens revolted against the empire, killing tens of thousands. They even hired mercenaries to massacre 30,000 citizens in the hippodrome.
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This Greek Orthodox basilica was constructed from 532-537 under the reign of Justinian.
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The Lombards started an invasion of Italy eventually taking the Northern half from the Byzatines
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In 636 one of the most major battles took place when the byzantines lost to a significantly smaller Muslim force, this lead to the loss of Syria and Palestine.
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He launched many conquests on the eastern part of Bulgaria and even paid another army to attack it for them, although that army later tried to attack Byzantine.
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The eastern and western churches separated dividing the empire in two.
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During the first crusade Byzantine required help with the Muslim attack, the pope called upon his fellow christians to help fight for god and to take back the holy land.
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Crusader armies captured, looted, and destroyed parts of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire
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During the reign of Constantine XI the Ottoman Army stormed Constantinople and took over the Byzantine Empire.