Ancient discovery or mystery,Greek civilization,The Byzantine Dawn

When Rome fell in the West, utmost people assumed the world was ending. Armies collapsed, metropolises burned, and trade routes dissolved. Yet far to the east, along the props of the Bosporus, another Rome was rising — one that spoke Greek, allowed Greek, and saw itself as the guardian of everything the ancient world had erected. This is the story of Byzantium — the conglomerate that noway called