Unknown History | LEARN HISTORY ACROSS THE WORLD on Instagram: "How did a “barbarian” become Roman Emperor? 🤔👑 After the Western Roman Empire fell in 476 CE, the Eastern Roman Empire — what we now call the Byzantine Empire — carried on for almost a thousand more years. They spoke Greek, but they still called themselves Romans and ruled from Constantinople as the rightful heirs of Caesar and Augustus. 🏛️🦅 But in the year 800 CE, something dramatic happened in the West… On Christmas Day, Pope