What are some of the contributions Byzantium made to modern culture?
A. Here is but a partial list: –Our educational systems of both higher and elementary schooling first developed there. –The world’s first university was located in Constantinople (the modern-day name for Byzantium.) –In the West, knowledge of Greek died out during the Dark Ages; if not for Byzantine pens, the giants of Greek literature would have been lost forever. Of the 55,000 ancient Greek texts that we have, more than 40,000 were transmitted by Byzantine scribes. –The concept of the rule of law, and most of our legal systems, are based on Byzantine models. –Byzantium invented the idea of the modern hospital and pioneered the concept of women doctors. Brownworth, who obviously has a passion to spread historical knowledge throughout the general populacej, is the creator of the podcast “12 Byzantine Rulers,” which even two years ago had 140,000 listeners, far more than would read most written historical works.
