Question

What two cultures influenced the Byzantine Empire (and therefore were preserved and passed on by the Byzantines)?

Answer 1

Byzantines were influenced strongly by both the Greek and the Roman cultures.

Explanation:

The Byzantine Empire was and is more correctly called the Eastern Roman Empire. Constantine after winning control of the Roman Empire moved his capital to Byzantium renaming the small town Constantinople.

Constantine brought with him the culture of the Western Roman Empire. He also made Christianity the official religion of his empire.

Byzantium was in the Greek speaking part of the Roman Empire. The Greek culture dominated the locality of the Eastern Roman Empire.

These two cultures the Latin Roman Culture and the Local Greek, Christian cultures blended. This created what became the Greek Orthodox church.