History of the Byzantine Empire

For many centuries, the Byzantine Empire held the title of the successor of Rome, the guardian of the traditions and power of the ancient world. But with the onset of the Middle Ages, everything changed. Byzantium tried desperately to retain its power, but it did not pass the test of time and did not even survive to the end of the Middle Ages. Dive into the complete history of the Byzantine Empire from its foundation to its fall.

[ilijas]

The many comments about mistakes are well deserved. Lets make this a constructive one;
Most of the mistakes came in things fairly unrelated to map, mapping and territorial changes. While in important conquests you once literally said "they conquered some territory in Georgia (or Armenia)". If I were you I would focus on events that led to map colors dancing around, and than be much more specific about territories and what the changes meant within historical context. It would reduce your scope for research and also margin for errors. General histories in broad strokes like this have been told and told again and again so many times, and by people with better command of history than you are showing at the moment. In that segment you brought nothing really, except for some funny mistakes. The map looks beautiful, you know your way around it, mapping is your obvious strong point. Play to your strengths and use historiography only as much as you need it to bring maps to life. It will be more original, creative and probably easier for you. And for us.

[vincesettineri]

Greats maps but the information is incorrect in quite a few places may be worth re releasing with the corrections but there is potential here.

[onemoreminute]

There are so many inaccuracies in this video I don't know where to begin.

[CLPth]

Eastern Roman* not the "successor" the continuation.

[IonutPaun-lpzq]

I stopped watching after 7mins. So many mistakes, Narses conquered all of Italy. The Lombards waited until his death to invade Italy. The Byzantine empire retained control of the main cities, such as Rome and Ravenna for two centuries. They controlled south of Italy and Sicily for even longer than that.

[thereviewers]

If you spend as much time on the visuals as on your research your videos would have ben amazing and posibly generate milion of views.

[kenster]

Watching this is like playing the boardgame Mare Nostrum.

[davidp]

You are aware that they never called themselves "Byzantine Empire", are you not. That was a German creation as they wanted to be the successors to Rome not the Muslims.

[GeorgiosLeo]

Very bad video today.
Poor research that just scratches the surfaces and in many instances is just outright wrong.

[agenthunk]

History of The Eastern Roman Empire is the Proper correct name of the Empire.

[TheIronChancellor]

Not even half of its history was shown here

[cliffpinchon]

Great content but please leave out the background music.

[paprskomet]

"Army become mainly mercenary and consisting mainly of foreigners"...that is not truth.Majority of regular army was still from Roman born recruits and since Maurice there was even intentional state drive to prefer natives over foreigners and mercenaries.

[NicolasCab]

Hope your channel blows up bro keep it up with this content! Top quality

[goat]

3:22-3:27 He said 452AD but the chart highlighted 542AD

[Theodoros_Kolokotronis]

For those interested, some monumental works regarding the Greek Byzantine Empire by three experts of Byzantine History, include;

Warren Treadgold;
“A Concise History of Byzantium”,
“A History of the Byzantine State and Society”,
“Byzantium and Its Army, 284–1081”,
“The Byzantine Revival, 780–842”.

Gustav Schlumberger;
“Un empereur byzantin au dixieme siecle: Nicephore Phocas”,
“Byzance et les croisades”,
“Récits de Byzance et des croisades”,
“ Le siege la prise et le sac de Constantinople par les Turcs en 1453”.

Sir Steven Runciman;
“Byzantine Civilization”,
“The Fall of Constantinople 1453”,
“The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence”,
“Byzantine Style and Civilization”,
“The Last Byzantine Renaissance”.

All epic. Truly, an academic treasure.

[Steven-dtnu]

Khosrow II declared war on the Romans seven years before Heraclius came to power. Because Phocas rebel against Maurice and murdered Maurice and his family.

Khosrow II a couple aspects to look at. One Maurice helped Khorsow II obtain his thorn in the past.

Khorsow II may have really felt to avenged Maurice ot used it as a pretext to invade Roman territory.

Cool maps.

[arthur-yqic]

and i thought anthemius build the theodosian walls....

[gerasimostsakalozos]

I would love to see a video about the greek revolution. Greek here!!

[trevorcontreras]

bruh literally distinguished himself as a weak ruler by showing a picture of Leo I as Theodosius 1