The Great Empire of Byzantium

Peter Frankaban and William D'Rimple talk about the Great Empire of Byzantium whose capital, Constantinople, they took as their own. To understand the Ottomans you have to start looking at the world that they took over and how they transformed it. The word Byzantine has been misused by people who really don't know what they're talking about. It's quoted by politicians all the time as being synonymous with a smoke of mirrors, with too much red tape, with things that don't really work. But if something lasts for more than a thousand years isn't it odd?