Practice question · True or false
The Roman Empire continued in the east for nearly a thousand years after 476.
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- What happened in 1453?
- Constantinople called itself Roman throughout.
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True
Why
True. The eastern empire ran from Constantinople until 1453; its people called themselves Romaioi. '476' marks the deposition of the last western emperor and became a textbook date only much later, 'Byzantine' is a sixteenth-century coinage those people would not have recognised.
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