I wish the Renaissance never happened!

[The alchemist]

The northern part of the Roman Empire went into dark ages and ruled by the church, the eastern part remained pagan and didn't go through the dark ages some city states in Italy like Florence remained pagan (where Italian renaissance would start) as well the eastern benzentine of the old roman empire it was wasn't until very much later those parts become Christian after Constantinople the eastern king of the Roman empire adopted Christianity for political reasons.

You know, the byzantine empire existed for over a thousand years, but people don't generally know much of it. But i don't think you are correct in that it was a pagan empire. The byzantine empire was ortodox christian since the 300s and that was also the same century it became a seperate entitiy from the western rome because of it's autocratic rule wich was looked down upon as a deviation. But it was the more sucessfull roman empire, while the western part declined.