Can’t stop thinking about how the Byzantine Empire saved Western Civilization

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And how high school history teachers won’t spend more than 10 minutes (at best) on this fascinating empire that spanned 3 continents and persisted for more than 1,000 years. Its earliest inhabitants would have experienced the sack of Rome by Odevacer. Its last would have lived long enough to hear news of Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the new world.

I feel greatly strongly about this and may bring it up at the next school board meeting.

Stfu

You should read the Secret History by Procopius. It will change your mind about this, I promise. We're about to send an entire generation of young people in to the halls of power, capitalism and commerce. And almost none of them have even heard of Justinian. Let that sink in...