How Did People of the Byzantine Empire View Themselves

Multiple Choice

How did people of the Byzantine Empire view themselves?

A) They saw themselves as something new, calling themselves the Byzantines.
B) They saw themselves as Greeks because of their close cultural relationship with Greece.
C) They considered themselves Persians because most of the rulers of the Byzantine Empire were Persian.
D) They considered themselves Romans as Byzantium was the eastern part of the Roman Empire.