It Is Difficult to Date the Beginning of Byzantine History

question 1

Multiple Choice

It is difficult to date the beginning of Byzantine history with precision because:

• A) Constantine never administered the Roman Empire from Constantinople.
• B) Greek was the only language ever used by Roman emperors in Constantinople.
• C) the Byzantine Empire considered itself the uninterrupted successor of the Roman Empire.
• D) Justinian resisted new forms of thought and art throughout his life.
• E) it began during the so-called Dark Ages during which very few records were kept.

---

Definitions:

Echoic

Pertaining to auditory processing, specifically the memory system that retains auditory information.

Atkinson And Shiffrin

Atkinson and Shiffrin developed the multi-store model of memory, which proposes that memory consists of three stores: a sensory register, short-term memory, and long-term memory.

Sensory Memory

The shortest-term element of memory that provides the ability to retain impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended.

Fleeting

Something that happens very quickly or lasts only a short time.