Greeks and Romans
Roman Empire
The Romans took Anatolia almost by default. The various Anatolian kings couldn’t refrain from picking away at Roman holdings and causing other sorts of irritation, so finally the legions marched in and took over. Defeating Antiochus III, King o…Birth of Christianity
Christianity began in Roman Palestine (Judea), but its foremost proponent, St Paul, came from Tarsus in Cilicia, in what is now southernTurkey. Paul took advantage of the excellent Roman road system to spread Jesus’s teachings. When the Romans …Byzantine Empire
Byzantine term is used since the 19th century to describe the Eastern Roman Empire centered in Istanbul (Constantinople) built after the divergence of the Roman Empire. The Byzantine Empire was also known as the Greek Empire because contrary to the R…