Higher education institutions around the world make use of online proctoring for tens of thousands of exams. The 17 campuses of the University of North Carolina proctor between 30,000 and 40,000 exams online per year. At the fully online Western Governors University, 30,000 exams are proctored online each month.
In the east, it continued as the Byzantine Empire until the death of Constantine XI and the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 CE. The influence of the Roman Empire on western civilization was profound in its lasting contributions to virtually every aspect of western culture.
Answer by Knowitallton. Confidence votes 64. The Byzantine Empire was important because it preserved knowledge from the Greeks and Romans while the rest of Europe was languishing in the Dark Ages. It originated as the Eastern Roman Empire, and they actually still felt that they were Roman almost till the Crusades.