<span>The Byzantine Empire was a vast and powerful civilization with origins that can be traced to 330 A.D., when the Roman emperor Constantine I dedicated a “New Rome” on the site of the ancient Greek colony of Byzantium. Though the western half of the Roman Empire crumbled and fell in 476 A.D., the eastern half survived for 1,000 more years, spawning a rich tradition of art, literature and learning and serving as a military buffer between Europe and Asia. The Byzantine Empire finally fell in 1453, after an Ottoman army stormed Constantinople during the reign of Constantine XI.</span>
When he suggested that change should be brought about “by any means necessary,” Malcolm X was stating violence would be necessary to achieve civil rights goals.
They were called A. Anti-Federalists. They thought that the constitution gave too much power to the national government at expense of the state government.
