Brief History of the Byzantine Empire | 5 MINUTES

As the Roman Empire dissolved in the 5th century, the Eastern Roman Empire, often called the Byzantine Empire, emerged as one of its successor states. Although historians debate about its exact start date, most agree that the Byzantine Empire was founded in 324 CE, when Constantine moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul).

Discover the brief history of the Byzantine Empire and how it shaped the region and world.

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[yudipriyanto]

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[عماراحمد-قن]

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[tasmiahmasih]

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[micahistory]

very interesting that you made this now since I just started reading a book called "a concise history of byzantium" by warren treadgold

[LondonPower]

Byzantium was a commonwealth of free cities that maintained their autonomy and the Greek organization of the City with the popular assemblies, while Constantinople was Cosmopolis, the queen of the Cities! So when in 1453 the Sultan of the Turks asked for the city from Constantine, he refused and said that he could not give him something that did not belong to him because the city belonged to the entire Greek people who voted in the popular assembly to resist until the end..

The dominant culture was the Greek, the soul of the empire was Greek and the Byzantines were once and admirable successors of the Greek culture! Of course there were foreign emperors if we judge Greekness by hematological criteria, but all these kings were continuations of the Greek way of thinking and culture..
The Latin language was considered barbaric and there was no creditable reference to them except for the Roman Empire as a state institution which Constantine the Great gave to the Greeks by moving the capital to Constantinople!
The empire was called Byzantine from that time because Constantinople was built on top of the ancient Greek city of Byzantium! Just as Rome gave its name to the Roman Empire, so did Byzantium give its name to the Byzantine Empire, so it happened when there were no national states! Athens gave the name Athenian Republic, Sparta was named after the sovereign city, Thebes, Marseilles in Gaul.
So when the Byzantine Empire had this organization that resembles a direct democracy, the West was in feudalism a more despotic system than the kingdom of the pharaoh in Egypt or the Sumerians in the Mesopotamia!
So the struggle of the French revolution was to bring Europe to the people, not freedom but individual rights. This was achieved with representative democracy, a form of elite dictatorship

[TheoKolokotronis]

“We are Hellenes by race and our culture has been Hellenic ever since the time of our ancestors”.

Michael Psellos, Byzantine Historian, high ranking courtier and advisor to several Byzantine Emperors (11th century).

[albertdinkha]

In reality, the Byzantine empire was an extension as a Roman Eastern empire after the Roman Western empire ceased from existence in 480 A.D, the western empire ceased from existence when the empire succumbed to repeated attacks and invasions by barbarians and other tribes of Europe mainly Huns & Gauls ...The newly established empire from the begining of fifth century consolidated her self militarily, economically and politically and the newly fledged known now Byzantium flourished virtually in all aspects of life, in military, in economy, in politics, in culture, in art, in science and in might...The empire reached the peace in her quest for expansion during seventh, eighth and nineth of A .D successive

[pokegan]

2:43 *laughs in Persian* ask them about emperor valerian lol

[stotle]

Google results say Theodora died of breast cancer, not the plague.

[georgenic]

0:45 He first named the city as “New Rome”. Later was renamed as Constantinople to honor its founder

[piedmontatl]

Was NEVER called the Byzantine Empire. Ever. This name was created by modern historians.

[borisminchev]

Great video
But aren't you going to mention the impact Bulgaria had on the empire.

[Greensanctuary-cw]

The Eastern Roman Empire, not Byzantium, it has zero to do with Hellens

[Greensanctuary-cw]

Justinia was from today's Serbia, he was not greek. 17 other Emperors were from Serbia, includind Constantine the Great. But Christianity spread through Balkans from the 1st century a.d., from the apostles Peter and Paul.

[yvonne]

Justinian was an lllyr/ Dardan/ Albanian, the Byzant was an Illyrian Empire!