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by ffgjgf1 1095 days ago
The official language did not change to Greek until the empire nearly collapsed as a result of the plague, Persian wars and the Arab invasion.

The state that emerged from this was were different to the Roman Empire rules by Justinian in many ways.

> after the Fall of Rome was

I would disagree that was the case in the 500s, the Fall of Rome was mostly seamless and most actual changes occurred years later.