#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

11576.893 - 11596.786 Gregory Aldrete

Or you can go past that date and say it's 1453 when the Eastern Roman Empire finally falls. And I mean the Eastern Empire is legitimately the Roman Empire. If you would go and ask them, who are you? They wouldn't say, you know, we're the Byzantines. We're the Eastern Roman Empire. They would just say, we're the Romans. And they have a completely legitimate claim to do that.