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Contributions of the Byzantine Empire Everybody has heard of the great Roman Empire, but many possess no knowledge of the Byzantine Empire that rose during the fall of the Roman Empire. The Byzantines lasted even longer than the Roman Empire. Several contributions were made to the Western world by the Byzantines. They created the Eastern Orthodox religion, they preserved almost all of the Greek artifacts we have currently, and Justinian’s Corpus iuris civilis became the foundation of nearly all European law and legal practice. The Eastern Orthodox Church’s members number over 250 million worldwide, many of which are in the United States. There have been many efforts to establish a single American