The best known and widely used Maori art motifs are the koru and the spiral. The koru is basically a stalk with a bulb at one end. No one knows how it was first invented or who elaborated this versatile element of pattern.Koru-like motifs are present in the arts of ancient Asia, notably in the areas of Southern China and South-east Asia. They abound in the tribal arts of Melanesia.o one knows how it was first invented or who elaborated this versatile element of pattern. Koru-like motifs are present in the arts of ancient Asia, notably in the areas of Southern China and South-east Asia. They abound in the tribal arts of Melanesia.
After the Roman Empire fell, the remnant, the Eastern Empire came to be known as the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine emperors called themselves Emperors of the Romans.   **Actually the answer above is a bit off the mark. Constantine was the Emperor who reunited the Empire.
Byzantium; in medieval Russian texts, Tsarâgrad; capital of the Roman Empire from. 330 and later of the Byzantine Empire. Constantinople was founded by the Roman emperor Constantine I in 324â330 on the site of the city of Byzantium on the European shore of the Bosporus.he city became the capital of the Latin Empire created by the Crusaders in 1204; economic primacy within it went to the Venetians. In July 1261, the Byzantines, with the assistance of the Genoese, won back Constantinople.