generate questions: The terms used to define Greekness have varied throughout history but were never limited or completely identified with membership to a Greek state. By Western standards, the term Greeks has traditionally referred to any native speakers of the Greek language, whether Mycenaean, Byzantine or modern Greek. Byzantine Greeks called themselves Romioi and considered themselves the political heirs of Rome, but at least by the 12th century a growing number of those educated, deemed themselves the heirs of ancient Greece as well, although for most of the Greek speakers, "Hellene" still meant pagan. On the eve of the Fall of Constantinople the Last Emperor urged his soldiers to remember that they were the descendants of Greeks and Romans.
What do Westerners believe it means to belong to the Greek heritage ? {sep_token} What do the Grecian Romioi  descendants of the Constantine rule  believe to be true in regards to the status as beneficiaries ? {sep_token} What other cultures do the Romioi  clam to be their birthright ? {sep_token} What is an alternative word used by Greeks to mean those who worship and alternative religion to the mainstreams ?