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To: Brumar89 who wrote (385806)	5/22/2008 8:45:58 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576645

Dude, Constantine I moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Constantinople. In fact that's how the city got renamed. About the same time, the Eastern Orthodox church broke with the Catholic church. Speaking Greek was considered s sign of refinement and education. I doubt the man in the street in Constantinople spoke Greek....since he was living in Turkey. Oh wow, you think Turkish was spoken in Constnatinople during Roman times? Wow, are you ignorant. We were both right. They spoke Latin in the Roman Empire....however, when the empire was split, at first they spoke Latin and but eventually more Greek. I knew Greek was spoken among the upper classes but I thought Latin was the language of the street. "The most important change made when the Roman Empire evolved into the Byzantine was the change in religion. While Rome was a polytheistic society, the Byzantines accepted monotheism as the basis for their religious belief. The second greatest change that occurred in the empire was the change in language. The Roman Empire used a number of languages, but Latin was the official language of its government. Latin was used increasingly less after the founding of Byzantium and Greek began to take its place as the official language. Naturally, this change also brought with it major political changes." turizm.net