4: Before Europe
The Making of Modern Ukraine
The Roman Empire Continues as Byzantium
The Roman Empire continues as Byzantium. It continues for another thousand years, which let's face it, even if we're cynical, is a pretty long time. And that thing which is called the Renaissance, where the clever Europeans rediscover all the things, the Renaissance is possible in large measure because Rome never fell in the first place. Because there was, as though I'm not going to say the Byzantine preserved everything of ancient Greece and ancient Rome. It didn't, but it preserved a lot of things.
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