Use the image of a structure from the former Byzantine Empire to answer the following question:

Colored photograph of the ruins of an aqueduct. A gravel road is in front of it.


What does this image suggest about the impact of the Western Roman Empire after its fall?


Greek and Roman influences on architecture and philosophy disappeared after the empire's fall.

Roman cultural traditions were forbidden and destroyed in the region after the empire's fall.

Roman architectural traditions, which borrowed from the Greek and pre-Roman cultures, were preserved in the region.

Christian influences on the region's architecture disappeared as new religions began to take hold.