The Legacy of Byzantium By Fjordman

The following quotes are from the book A History of Byzantium by scholar Timothy Gregory. It is impossible to understand the history of Eurasia for the past 1600 years without devoting considerable space to the Byzantine Empire. It had great influence on Western, Russian and Middle Eastern culture, especially on what is called Islamic civilization, which simply would not have existed without the Greco-Roman heritage of the Byzantines.

Despite this, the legacy of Byzantium is too often ignored in the West. The reason why so many Westerners buy into the idea that Muslims "preserved the Greek heritage" is that they know so little about the Byzantine Empire, where Greek texts were actually preserved and passed on.

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