The Byzantine Empire: A Complete Overview

The Byzantine Empire is a complete overview of the Eastern Roman Empire from around the 500s to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. The video goes over the initial reconquest under Justinian, and the wars with the Sassanids and Arabian armies. Then comes a period called the Byzantine Dark Ages before a period of prosperity in arts, culture, and military under the Macedonians. The decline begins soon after, culminating in the Crusades and eventually the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans.

This will be our 8th and final episode in the Medieval World mega-documentary!

0:00 Eastern Roman Empire (Justinian to the Dark Ages)
22:48 Height of the Empire (Macedonian Renaissance)
29:39 Decline (Manzikert, Crusades, Ottomans)

The Medieval World Series:

Welcome to The Medieval World series! This series is meant to summarize broad topics in history and balances political history and events, with social/daily life, and culture. If you've watched our History of the World documentary, this series is a perfect next step. The videos are standalone, but presented in a chronological fashion. The series will be divided into 8 videos about the Medieval Period, which we call Phase 2. Once these 8 videos are completed, we will move onto Phase 3, but this project will be considered completed, and compiled into ONE MEGA-DOCUMENTARY containing all 8 parts.

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[MadeInHistory]

Thanks everyone for watching! This is our final episode on the Medieval World for this current project!

[vanmars]

The longest lasting state in the world, the last refuge of the old Greco-Roman world, seeing nations rise and fall....it's demise was a sad affair. The capital that was meant to be the first Christian capital of the civilized world...no, no.. Nothing of that should have happened. Tragedy, a real tragedy

[tannerdenny]

Constantine XI died like a true emperor and has my respect.

[guilhermepoggiodeoliveirar]

This video is a masterpiece! Thank you!

[SolidAvenger]

Flash Point History has an entire series on the Byzantine Empire that is truly fascinating. He does, though, agree with public opinion about Justinian's record versus how mainstream historians portray the Byzantine Emperor

[pacifistidentitarian]

Last time I was this early the walls of constantinople had not been toppled

[miramax]

That dreadful day when the Queen of all cities fell to the faithless Asian nomads. The Emperor fell, the Empire fell, all is lost. Sadness.

[javiersaugar]

"Η πόλη έπεσε και είμαι ακόμα ζωντανός" haven't felt this melancholic since the West fell apart in 476.

[timwest]

6:53 "Mobs of people vomited out of the hippodrome" Nice reference! Wikipedia: A vomitorium is a passage situated below or behind a tier of seats in an amphitheatre or a stadium, through which big crowds can exit rapidly at the end of an event.

[carlosaugustodinizgarcia]

Roman empire (330- 1453) -a complete overview.

[darthcheney]

Istanbul still stands to this day. You can still see the Theodosian Walls. Pretty fucking amazing if you think about it. And don't get me started about Rome.

[HearTruth]

History is always written by the victors -- Winston Chuchill Eph 5:6 Ecc 1:9

[marklancaster]

To the production crew - thank you for the excellent information
- could you respectfully consider reducing the volume of the “background music” by perhaps 75%. I’m not sure how necessary it is to have the narrator compete with a sound track that only serves as a distraction both in volume but also tempo.
Just a thought.

[brandonblackfyre]

As an *History Buff & Lover* I am in love with these videos you are putting out! Keep up the great work! I recently started playing a game called *"Total War: Attila"* that takes place during the 400AD's when *Atilla The Hun* was born and grew up to wreak havoc on the world and its people, especially Eastern Europe.. I usally play as *The Western Roman Empire* and make an attempt to TRY and hold off *Attila & The Huns* slowly moving towards my provinces belonging to *The Western Roman Empire* and its amazing seeing how historically accurate *Total War: Atilla* is and it got *EVEN BETTER* when I just downloaded the mod called *1212AD* for *Total War: Atilla* and it basically gives you a whole new game that takes place in the *1200s* during the end of the *4th Crusade & The beginning of the 5th Crusade* ... its a complete overhaul for many game mechanics and enitre cities & settlements, making large cities and settlements look a lot more medieval than they did in the vanilla *Total War: Atilla* in the *400AD's* of course the best part is the *Details Of The Armies & Soldiers in the armies...* the amount of *detail the mod developers added to this mod is absolutely insane, from the armies, towns, ports, landmarks and down to uniforms and armor of the individual soldiers on the battlefields* each *Nation/Empire* has their own type of units depending on where the army is recruiting from.... and each of these units have *incredibly accurate and well done uniforms and armor/weapons* if you are a *History Buff & Lover* like myself then you should play *Total War: Attila's 1212AD Medieval Kingdoms* mod/overhaul and its completely free but I believe the developers behind the *1212AD Medieval Kingdoms Mod* take donations if you are will to support to help with making new content and updating the *1212AD Mod* ... even if you do not play video games you should look up videos of *battle gameplay & full campaigns* especially *The Byzantine Empire* videos as you can retake *Constantinople* with the *Nicea* faction and reinstate *The Byzantine Empire* and eventually if you are lucky and good enough, the whole *Roman Empire* all over *Europe*

[Jalayir]

The Qur'an includes the Surat Ar-Rum, the sura dealing with "the Romans", sometimes translated as "The Byzantines, " reflecting a term now used in the West. These Romans of the 7th century, referred to as Byzantines in modern Western scholarship, were the inhabitants of the surviving Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. Since all ethnic groups within the Roman empire had been granted citizenship by 212 AD, these eastern peoples had come to label themselves Ρωμιοί or Ῥωμαῖοι Romaioi (Romans), using the word for Roman citizen in the eastern lingua franca of Koine Greek. This citizenship label became "Rûm" in Arabic.

The Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire traced its origin as an institution to the foundation of Constantinople as the new capital of the Roman Empire in 330 by Constantine the Great. The Byzantine Empire survived the 5th century, when the Western Roman Empire fell, more or less intact and its populace continually maintained that they were Romaioi (Romans), not Hellenes (Greeks), even as the empire's borders gradually became reduced to in the end only encompassing Greek-speaking lands.

Nicol 1992, p. ix.

[Orthodoge]

I wish there were more videos and media on the East Roman Empire

[TheoKolokotronis]

Greek language has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3, 400 years of written records.

It is the Ancient Greek civilization kept alive with the Byzantine Empire in the Middle Ages, that shaped more than any other the European identity.

Standing in these lands for millenniums, always fighting against the odds. Eternal glory to our formidable ancestors 🔥🇬🇷

[tomzamp]

Romans played the most important part of Western civilization . It is amazing that Turkey is able to maintain all this history till this day. One must visit Rome and Istanbul once the centre of the earth

[joser.romero]

This is a masterpiece, thanks for the great work. I’m a Byzantine Christian ☦️

[Jalayir]

There's a common pattern between Alparslan and Attila both inflicted heavy defeats against the Romans in Manzikert and Ravenna respectively and died just the year after at the height of their power