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.

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Ordinal

A term referring to a type of data or a scale of measurement where items are ranked in order but the differences between rank positions are not necessarily equidistant.

Partial Correlation

A measure of the degree of association between two variables while holding one or more other variables constant.

Third Variable

An unmeasured variable that may influence or confound the relationship between the two variables of interest in a study.

Spearman Rank

An assessment of rank correlation that doesn't rely on parametric assumptions, used to evaluate how effectively a monotonic function can represent the association between two variables.