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History of Russia or History of Byzantium? 2017-03-26 04:41:54 Post No. 2565398
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I'm a History major with a concentration in Social Studies teaching. I need 1 more 300 level history course. Currently I'm looking at
>HIS 377-01 History of Russia to 1900
OR
>HIS 380 Near and Middle East Topics: "Byzantium: The First Christian Empire"
I find both topics very interesting. I've seen a department roundtable where the Russian history professor impressed me a lot, but I've never had a course with him. Which would you guys recommend?
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Byzantium
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>>2565402
elaborate tho
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Because it's the Roman Empire that never fell to the Barbarians. A Roman Empire that called themselves Roman until 50 years before Columbus discovered the New World. Also because Basil II is fucking rad
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>>2565398
Byzantium, you'll be learning stuff written by a Russian refugee from the USSR
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Without Byzantium making them Orthodox, Russia would have remained a collection of meme tier countries going the way the Turkics went after they were conquered by the Mongols.
Byzantines gave the Slavs the Cyrillic alphabet, they gave them a non-pagan religion,and taught them what empire was.
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