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The Byzantines were the eastern part of the Roman empire. It had Orthodox Christianity as their religion. It had the basics of our law. We should study the Byzantine empire, because it shaped the world that we live in today. The Byzantine empire had a better religion than the western part of the roman empire. The Byzantine empire had Eastern Orthodox Christianity as their religion. The difference between Orthodox and Latin Christianity is that Orthodox lets priests marry, the pope had less authority, and that they wrote in Greek writing. The primary reason we should study the Byzantines is that they made part of our law, preserved our literature, and kept the U.S. from being Muslim today. Justinian ruled the Byzantine Empire from 527 to 565 C.E. When he became Emperor he created a new code of 4,652 laws. These laws were written in 50 books. Justinian’s Code shaped our basic ideas about law and justice today. The Byzantines preservation of a portion Greek classics. All the literature survived because men in the 9th and 10th centuries, rewrote them in cursive. The Byzantines withstood five years of siege by the Arabs. In doing so saved western civilization. Had the Arabs captured Constantinople, all Europe and America might be Muslim today. In Conclusion, all the things you see today might be because of the Byzantines. The Constitution. The fact that we are a free country. History books about ancient times. All of these are because of the Byzantines.