Missing One Thousand Years? | "Byzantium: The Lost Empire"

The Divine Principle "Parallels in History" seems to largely ignore the reality of the one thousand year reign of the Christian Byzantine Roman Empire. It's important that we all be aware of this very critical and influential part of our history. As the old saying goes; "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."—George Santayana

Divine Principle Chapter 3 The Periods in Providential History and the Determination of Their Lengths http://www.unification.org/ucbooks/expodp/edp-history.html

Divine Principle Chapter 4 The Parallels between the Two Ages in the Providence of Restoration http://www.unification.org/ucbooks/expodp/edp-parallels.html

From Encyclopedia Britannica:
"Theirs was, in their view, none other than the Roman Empire, founded shortly before the beginning of the Christian Era by God’s grace to unify his people in preparation for the coming of his Son. Proud of that Christian and Roman heritage, convinced that their earthly empire so nearly resembled the heavenly pattern that it could never change..."
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/87186/Byzantine-Empire

From Wikipedia:
"It survived the fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. During most of its existence, the empire was the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire

"Pulcheria... one of the most important figures in Byzantine and even in World History." 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulcheria 

VIDEO CLIP: Byzantium: The Lost Empire, TLC — "... Pulcheria... the three roles of women laid out in the early Christian Church; sinners, virgins and mothers... "—John Romer, Egyptologist

VIDEO CLIP: Byzantium: The Lost Empire, TLC — "After Pulcheria, emperors ruled by divine right, and the right of birth, and all western kings imitated them... changed the way men saw women and women saw themselves... sexuality... "—John Romer

Religious Freedom?

"Theodosius I established, with the Edict of Thessalonica, the Christianity of the First Council of Nicaea as the official state religion, reserving for its followers the title of Catholic Christians and declaring that those who did not follow the religion taught by Pope Damasus I of Rome and Pope Peter of Alexandria were to be called heretics...

In 391, Theodosius closed all the 'pagan' (non-Christian and non-Jewish) temples and formally forbade pagan worship."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_church_of_the_Roman_Empire

"Justinian I... solidified his power but ended with the deaths of a reported 30,000 to 35,000 rioters on his orders."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire

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Like the Bible, if we look at the Divine Principle symbolically, poetically and metaphorically it expresses a sacred history, not a literal and scientific one.


"A religion does not need to be interpreted literally in order to be valuable and taken seriously."—Anonymous

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"Byzantium: The Lost Empire" (full documentary by John Romer)

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VIDEO: Fall of The Roman Empire...in the 15th Century: Crash Course World History