WELL YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW THAT THE TERM "BYZANTINE EMPIRE" WAS INVENTED BY AN 18TH CENTURY HISTORIAN AND THAT THE EMPIRE AND ALL OF IT'S CONTEMPORARIES REFERRED TO IT AS "THE ROMAN EMPIRE" UNTIL IT'S DESTRUCTION IN 1453 SINCE THE LINE OF EMPERORS WAS UNINTERRUPED FROM CONSTANTINE I TO CONSTANTINE XI AND THE LEGAL AND CULTURAL TRADITIONS OF ROME PERSISTED THROUGH THE ENTIRETY OF THE "BYZANTINE" EMPIRE (WELL EXCEPT LATIN ?:()
THOSE ARE THE 250,000 STRONG ARMY OF THE OTTOMAN SULTAN MEHMED II OUTSIDE THE BATTLEMENTS OF CONSTANTINOPLE ON TUESDAY MAY 29TH 1453 AS THE LAST 6000 SOLDIERS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE FOUGHT TO THE END IN A BLOODY BLAZE OF GLORY.
OKAY I ADDED A SECOND RECITATION AT THE END FOR YOU NITPICKERS BECAUSE I WAS GOING TO DO THAT ANYWAY ALSO I AM NOW NEVER PUTTING THE SLIGHTEST EFFORT INTO A YTMND AGAIN GOODBYE
Alien! You have spoken the words! And you have spoken them rightly. We will explain to you our reasons for enslaving all sentient life, about the Dnyarri, our slave masters.
