Submitted by google2 on 03/17/2008 02:05 PM Flag This Paper
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The changes and continuities in political, economic, and social systems from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD to 1450 in Europe. The Roman Empire's imperial bureaucracy, economy, and governing instructions were left to Byzantium at the end of it's reign. Although Europe didn't have very extensive unity or political order, the Byzantine policies brought Europe to a state of economical and political order, with a big area for trade , cultural and commercial exchanges were also supported in the post-classical world, which would help shape the development of the commonwealth in Eastern Europe. The political leaders also set up a sequence of independent states while enduring economical and political reform in western Europe, and supported their society. All of the different societies went from Roman Empire to the established under Byzantium's economic, political, and cultural influences from 476 to 1450. However, changes some of the countries from today.
As the Roman Empire died in the West the Byzantine Empire remained strong in the East. The pope’s of Rome were free from polities, but the Byzantine emperor was the patriarch of all church matters. The unity of political and spiritual matters prevented the empire from failing it did face threats from outside groups for over 300 years. Politically Byzantium lost converts and urban lands to the Muslim Arabs reducing their power. Religiously Byzantium was declining in relations with the popes of Rome and split from the Latin church formally in 1054 after the 3rd crusade. Byzantium a ancient Greek city on the site of modern-day Istanbul, conquered by the Romans in 196 c.e, and rebuilt in 330 c.e by Constantine the Great, who renamed it Constantinople. As the capital of the Byzantine Empire until 1453, it was the largest city in the Christian world. Although, the basic political structures did not have a dramatic change on the Roman Empire.
This decline of the Roman Empire left the Society and...