But as we've talked about in multiple videos, in 476, you have the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and the West becomes fragmented, a bunch of various Germanic kingdoms, but the Eastern Roman Empire, with its capital at Constantinople, continues. And once again, they did not call themselves the Byzantines. They called themselves the Romans. They called themselves the Roman Empire. It was only much, much later that historians tried to separate this period of the Roman Empire by calling it the Byzantine Empire. There is a bit of a resurgence under Justinian. He's able to capture significant portions of the West, including the Italian Peninsula.