Constantine the Great (312 - 337)

Constantine, the first Christian Emperor of Rome, wins civil wars against all rivals and determines the course of Roman history for the next thousand years.

Songs Used

Shameika - Fiona Apple
Cobblestone Village - Brandon Fiechter
Is That You or Are You You? - Chris Zabriskie
There Are Many Different Kinds of Love - Chris Zabriskie
Ghost Town - Kanye West

Ancient Sources

Lactantius
Eusebius
Aurelius Victor

Modern Sources

Strauss, Barry M., Ten Caesars (2019)
Gibbon, Edward, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Online Sources

Loeb Classical Library
Perseus Tufts Library

#history #rome #thucydides

[thucydideschannel]

Got a new mic, hopefully it sounds better

[TGoodman]

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[tragos]

History student speaking: You did great buddy! Non-biased viewpoint, accuracy and an overall great video

[nonamexr]

Diocletian didn't do any better with his succession plan. The tetrarchy all but broke down soon after he retired.

[Arduu]

Cminor correction, Constantine wasnt baptised in the Jordan river. He was baptised in Nicomedia.

[gvdtzdw]

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[wesleymons]

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[gaiagba]

Is there a reason why he has anime eyes

[fannykeith]

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[saidtxsx]

I really love this video I love how it’s so bad that it hurts my ears. Your voice is worse than scratching a white board

[naucs_]

bro the contrast of ending last episode on kanye and then starting this episode with that wacky piano scale is just wild lol

[ReplyToMeIfUrRetarded]

The animations are very smooth. how do you make these?

[georgenic]

11:00 *it was called New Rome when it was founded. It was called Constantinopolis later in order to honor the founder of the city.

[alfredosauce]

I thought Helena was from Bithynia

in Asia minor

[dshock]

Supposedly Fausta accused Crispus of rape because she wanted her son to be heir. Crispus* I believe was her step son.

[achilleuspetreas]

Helen was definitely not Illyrian, she was Greek. The idea that she came from the Balkans is a fringe and generally unsupported theory.

[glennsego]

Constantine claimed to have received a vision and a Devine message telling him to conquer under the sign of the cross

The Word of GOD tells us to test the Spirits to see if they be of GOD

So let us examine the Word of GOD to determine where this message to Constantine originated

Is it in accordance with the Word of GOD and the Gospel of Christ or is it a Lie from the father of lies that can appear as an angel of Light to decieve ?

Ephesians 6:12
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

2 Corinthians 10:3
"For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:"

Ephesians 6:13
"Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand."

2 Corinthians 10:4
"(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;)"

2 Corinthians 10:5
"Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;"

2 Timothy 2:3
"Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ."

2 Timothy 2:4
"No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier."

Ephesians 2:19
"Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;"

Ephesians 2:20
"And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;"

2 Corinthians 3:18
"But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord."

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man but the ways thereof lead to death

Ask yourself this, did the Apostles and Desciples of Christ become martyrs by defending themselves while conquering under the sign of the Cross or did they Endure Hardships recieve their Beatings as HE Did without fighting back even unto their deaths as Christ did in whose image they became by following HIS Spirit within them to the Glory of our Messiah and KING Blessed Be HIS Name for Only HE is Worthy and Able Now and Forever in the Name of Yahusha Amen

[georgenic]

Was he the emperor of the Roman or the Byzantine Empire ?

[dmnyates]

INCORRECT: during the council of Nicaea 325 the first one… Christ was not created yet, it was Serapis at the time.

[glennsego]

Daniel 7:23
"Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces."

Daniel 7:24
"And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings."

Constantine Emerged out of the Tetrarchy (Rule of Four) as the Sole Emperor of Rome (the Fourth Kingdom)

Daniel 7:21
"I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;"

Daniel 7:22
"Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom."

Daniel 7:25
"And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

And after these things a fourth kingdom will arise, whose power will be harsh and evil far beyond those which were before it, and it will rule many times as the forests on the plain, and it will hold fast for times, and will exalt itself more than the cedars of Lebanon. And by it the Truth will be hidden, and all those who are polluted with iniquity will flee to it, as evil beasts flee and creep into the forest. BARUK SHENIY (2 BARUK) 39:5-6 את CEPHER