What legacy left to the world the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine empire)?

[Renekton]

As for me the left first the Orthodoxy.
Also a lot of intellectuals persons left Constantinople before and after the fall of the city in Italian cities starting the Renaissance.

What's your opinion? Please discuss.

[Cristiano viejo]

Almogavar mercenaries defeating ottomans helping weak Byzantines. That is what comes to my mind when I think in the ERE.

[Renekton]

Almogavar mercenaries defeating ottomans helping weak Byzantines. That is what comes to my mind when I think in the ERE.

You mean the Catalan company?
True the ERE in the late Medieval times was a former shadow of herself. The end was inevitable.

[Cristiano viejo]

You mean the Catalan company?
True the ERE in the late Medieval times was a former shadow of herself. The end was inevitable.

Yes.

[brian321]

Almogavar mercenaries defeating ottomans helping weak Byzantines. That is what comes to my mind when I think in the ERE.

The italian mercenaries did the most