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That's all lower case, go to shhopify d. com slash lux to take your business to the next level today is aleex F the podcast it, please check out our sponsors in the description where you can also find links to contact me, ask questions, give feedback, and so on And now, dear friends Anthony C Dallas You've described that the Byzantine Empire is the Roman Empire, that calling it the Byzantine Empire is an invention of historians writing long after the empire has collapsed peopleeople of that time considered themselves Romans The so called Byzantine Empire never actually existed, that it was, in every legal and cultural sense, the Roman Empire continuing unbroken. Let's get our terms right in the grand historical context. What is the Byzantine Empire and why Should we just call it the Roman Empire? So Lex, the burden of proof is on those who would assert that what we've been calling the Byzantine Empire is something other than the Roman Empire because all of our sources are very clear about this And we've known about this, we've always known about it It's almost a form of cognitive dissonance, right? It's like when you know something is the case, but you carry on as if it's not. The Eastern Roman Empire, this is the direct continuation of the ancient Roman Empire in the east, right? Everybody knows the Western Empire fell in the fifth century. And for many conceptions of Western history, that was sufficient. Like that's when we just called it. The Roman Empire fell in the fifth century.