The Rise And Fall of The Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire Documentary)

The Byzantine Empire History of the Eastern Roman Empire Documentary

This video covers a summary of the events from the ancient foundation of Rome to the fall of Constantinople. Byzantium Byzantine empire history summarized and explained in a nutshell.

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[thomasturner]

Roman Empire: the original
Byzantine empire: the epic sequal
Whatever Mussolini was trying to do: disappointing trilogy

[manyIce]

In school we never learned much about East Rome. It was something like: "And there was East Rome also, now lets move on to the middle ages". What a let-down. Thanks for briefing me on a MAJOR part of history I sadly missed.

[matthewneuendorf]

Arguably Justinian's reconquests would have been easy for the empire to absorb if not for the plague that wiped out between a quarter and a third of the tax base.

[bretalvarez]

If the Byzantines and Sassanians were allies they would’ve been unstoppable

[Zqppy]

Constantine named it New Rome, people renamed the city to Constantinople after he died

[shaolindreams]

The name Basil is from the word Basileus.. Greek word for King.

[byzantinetales]

Everything has its life circle. The Byzantine Empire was lucky enough to have a great geopolitical administrative and cultural inheritance. This helped it to survive up to the gunpowder age

[thehunter]

1:12 trajan definitely never skipped chest day

[chanchingcheng]

Actually Constantine didn't call it Constantinople, he called it Nova Roma (New Rome)
But everyone else called it Constantinople

[MT-gztt]

Heraclius ii: "Finally we defeated the Sassanid Empire and we reconquered the lost territories"
Arabs:"I'm about to end this man's whole carrier"
*400 years later*
Basil ii:"After years of instability, invasions the Empire has managed to re-establish itself as one of wealthiest and stronger nation in the world"
Turks/crusaders:"I'm about to end this man's whole carrier"

[solsticefr]

Imagine Being that last Roman Emperor, the day Constantinople was taken... Looking out his window, seing the walls destroyed by canons, and realizing that he was, almost for sure, the last emperor of a dynasty that lasted for thousands of years...
Vivat Imperium !

[eliad]

Eastern Roman Empire: Can we have some help?
Pope: OK, sending them over
Eastern Roman Empire: Can't wait to have some european knights to fight the Seljuks


4 months later: * sees a bunch of thieves, murderers and bandits with crosses painted on their clothes *
Eastern Roman Empire: What-

[skoomamuch]

every time someone mentions "Byzantine Empire" I cried

[OmegaPhattyAcid]

I just realized that in the The Elder Scrolls games, the Reman Empire is a blatant allusion to Romulus' brother. The Imperial society is obvious enough, but I never realized that detail before.

[SarudeDanstorm]

Had Emperor Maurice kept his armies in line, the world would be a vastly different place today.

[guilhermes.d.g.]

Just when i had a history class about the byzantines, Epimetheus publishes this video, you really made my day the byzantines are incredible

[worsethanjoerogan]

Wow I was expecting the Sassanids to attack when the Roman army left or when it mutinied, not for them to go to war because Maurice was assassinated. I guess Khosrau genuinely wanted good relations with the Empire

[ras]

In the 1340s the Byzantines had a long and terrible civil war, while occasionally fighting the Turks.
And to add salt to their wounds,
the Serbian tzar Dushan deeply manipulated the civil war, fighting and sponsoring all sides, while conquering most of the Balkans and cutting Thessaloniki away from Constantinople. The blockade of Thessaloniki was a severe economic loss, after which the Byzantines could never recover.


After these events, the Byzantine empire was a cripple.
Constantinople was semi-deserted.
Many Romei (Greek) intellectuals have fled to Italy over the decades, taking a lot of books and other treasure with them, as if the Pope didn't steal enough during the Latin kingdom. The renaissance was sparked long before the final fall of Constantinople.
Anyway,
A few decades after the civil war, the Turks entered the Balkans, going around Constantinople. The Serbians tried to stop them, asked the pope for a crusade, but the Pope didn't care. After many battles, the Serbians were crushed. And Europe was Turkish. The only thing left was to capture Constantinople. The great, impenetrable... empty box... about to become even emptier.

[lucacioctavian]

As a fellow historian, both by diploma and passion, you did a really good job explaining in such short time the history of the Byzantinian empire. Well done!

[marto]

Little about Komnenos dynasty and the war with the normans.






By the way, this empire truly refuses to die.