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Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of Empires | Lex Fridman Podcast #498

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1:24- The following is a conversation with Anthony Kaldellis, a historian of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire.1:52You've described that the Byzantine Empire is the Roman Empire, that calling it the Byzantine Empire is an invention of2:08the so-called Byzantine Empire never actually existed, that it was, in every legal and cultural sense, the Roman Empire

Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire - Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome | Lex Fridman Podcast #443

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18:47for the end of the Roman Empire. I actually think it goes all the way through the end of the Byzantine Empire in 1453,1:09:16the Byzantine Empire, compiles all this together into something that today we just kinda loosely called Justinian's Code of Roman Law,3:06:50If you were go and ask them, "Who are you?" They wouldn't say, you know, "We're the Byzantines, we're the Eastern Empire."

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Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of Empires | Lex Fridman Podcast #498

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“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.”quoteAnthony Kaldellis argues that the Eastern Roman Empire was not a distinct 'Byzantine' entity but a continuous, resilient Roman state that survived for over 2,000 years due to its institutional stability, taxation system,summaryThe empire's longevity stemmed from its ability to integrate diverse populations under a unified Roman and Orthodox identity, avoiding internal fragmentation until external invasions became insurmountable in the 14th censummary