Talk:Civilizations (Age of Empires II)/@comment-91.152.20.224-20141003070028/@comment-75.185.59.113-20150106144611

History books like to refer to the eastern half of the divided Rome as the Eastern Roman Empire. However, the "Eastern Roman Empire was actually called the Byzantine Empire. "Eastern Roman Empire" was more of a name historians came up with because there was a Western Roman Empire. Those living in the Byzantine Empire did consider themselves more Greek than Roman because they mostly spoke Greek and were geographically located in much of ancient Greece.

I can vouche for this point, but don't know enough about the other points to say whether they are historically accurate or not.