IIn what ways were barbarians different than Romans? Byzantine Empire and Constantinople????

the real reason why they were called barbarians was because they did not speak latin as the romans did. In the Roman world anyone who did not speak latin was considered a barbarian

Barbarians had a customary law transmitted orally. Some idea of what this was like is in the Icelandic "Njal's Saga" (see cheap paperback). First, the Visigoths, then others, were impressed by the written Roman law. (Visigoths occupied Rome, 410) Roman law was first codified in 438 AD, though there were earlier, partial law books written by private lawyers. The first barbarian code was the "Breviary of Alaric," named after an earlier king (378-410). Examples of barbarian law codes are in Montesquieu, "The Spirit of Laws" (in your library).

A town called Byzantium existed on the Bosphorus from ancient times. The emperor Constantine refounded and built it up as Constantinople after 323 AD. It served sometimes as capital of the whole empire and sometimes of the Eastern Roman Empire. As Eastern emperors increasingly lost authority in Western Europe (after 490) and especially after the death of Justinian I (~560), the Eastern Roman Empire evolved into what we call the Byzantine Empire. (They thought they were the Roman Empire right until the end in 1453.) This meant that the language changed from Latin to a medieval Greek, the Greek Orthodox Church evolved differently from the Latin Roman church until a final split in 1057. Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire lost contact with one another, except briefly in 800 when there was talk of Charlemagne marrying the Empress Irene, and in 1000 when Otto IV of Germany did marry a princess Theophano. The two peoples met in 1100 when the First Crusade passed through Constantinople on the way to the Holy Land. There was increased contact after that. The Fourth Crusade actually conquered Constantinople in 1204 (recaptured, 1261). The Turks finally took Constantinople and extinguished the Byzantine Empire in 1453.

Barbarians were people from the Barbary coast - Africa - which the Romans conquered.

But the Romans lost a lot of soldiers fighting these men because the Barbarians were fierce warriors. Eventually the adjective barbarian was applied to anyone who exhibited the passionate fierceness that the Barbarians did.

There are several words that once were tribal in nature and have become translated to adjective usage referring to the basic nature of the tribe(s).

the main diff was Rome was united front ran by an emperor where as the barbarians were a bunch of waring tribes with a different leader for every one that's how it was so easy for Rome to defeat them Byzantine Empire was just the roman empire so her laws aere the same as rome

The Romans considered any non roman uncivilized. It was their form of propaganda during those days to call any outsider a barbarian, even other civilized cultures. Your gona have a lot more research to do though. Barbaric laws could be from any other culture from the roman time period, Norse, Gaul, Visigoth, Pict etc.

the romans were a civilized people where as the barbarians were made up of lots of tribes. byzantine empire was basically the romans.