Talk:Civilizations (Age of Empires II)/@comment-91.152.20.224-20141003070028/@comment-80.57.58.102-20170106144125

The terms Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire were both terms that were created after the fall of Constantinople. The people of the Eastern Roman Empires referred to themselves as "Romans" and to their Empire as "Roman Empire" or "Romania". West-Europeans however saw them as Greeks, so as to distinguish between them and the European kingdoms that saw themselves as the true successors to the (Western) Roman Empire, for example because the city of Rome was actually not in Byzantine hands for much of the Middle Ages. Note that Slavs and Turks didn't make such a distinction. The people of the Eastern Roman Empire had been speaking Greek even in official circles before the fall of the Western Roman Empire, however, for administration Latin was more common. Throughout the Dark Ages the official language was Latin. Later on en emperor decided to change that to Greek because basically everyone spoke Greek. Anyways maybe it'd be cool/more accurate if like the people and the soldiers etc spoke Greek, but the king and maybe monks spoke Latin, to show how though Latin wasn't actually used by the civilians it kept a role in the Empire in the higher circles.