the eastern (byzantine) empire and the roman empire were not similar they were the same
the east was split from the west to help the large empire to be better managed .
the main reason the east stayed around for a thousand years longer was that the east was richer and had less barbarian armies to attack it. because of its riches it was able to defend it self better.
culturely it was more greek they also adopted greek as its language instead of latin but they still called themselves roman not byzantine that was a word invented recently to try to separate the east and west .
but they were allways Romans

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