This is why I always get into arguments with Roman-weeabos who claim that the Roman empire lasted for a thousand years or w/e. I pretty much consider the split into four empires the end, but by the time Justinian comes around it's functionally so different from the Italian based empire, hardly seems like continuity.
This is why I always get into arguments with Roman-weeabos who claim that the Roman empire lasted for a thousand years or w/e. I pretty much consider the split into four empires the end, but by the time Justinian comes around it's functionally so different from the Italian based empire, hardly seems like continuity.
No empire collapses twice, for it is not the same empire, and it is not the same collapse
Cuncta fluunt, one might say.