Rome fell in 476. So why were people in Constantinople still calling themselves Romans a thousand years later?
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Students will explain why the Eastern Roman Empire survived the fall of the West, how Constantinople's location made it a center of trade, how its walls and water protected it, and how the empire kept Roman ways while developing its own Greek and Christian culture.
U2-L2 is Justinian, the emperor who tried to win back the West, wrote down Rome's laws and built Hagia Sophia.
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Part One
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Part Two
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