How Greece was Christianized DOCUMENTARY

Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series on the history of Ancient Civilizations and Ancient Greece continues with a video on how Greece was Christianized, as we talk about the process of adoption of the new religion across the Roman Empire.

Production Music courtesy of EpidemicSound

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[allonzehe]

Your military vids are great, but my absolute favorite vids are these that cover the non-military aspects of history and ancient life.

[FueledByAdobo]

That Age of Empires reference brought back so many memories.
"Woolooloo!"

[DevSarman]

Interested about the Christianization of Ethiopia and Eritrea, considering their somewhat isolated position from the classical world in late antiquity

[theHerathrig]

"A simple WO Lo Lo /" ah the good to hear the great priest from age of empires .

[kristiawanindriyanto]

It helps that Greek were the lingua franca of the Eastern mediterranian, thanks to Alexander's conquest and the Hellenization policy of his succesor Kingdoms

[fm-gamer]

More videos of Greece, it’s so interesting and fascinating. Great video. I would love to see a video of the Pontic Greeks (they seem to preserved a lot of ancient cultural stuff in language and music).

[expandedhistory]

This channel never ceases to amaze us! Thank you Kings and Generals for inspiring us to make our military history channel!

[barbiquearea]

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World also fell victim of Theodosius I's closing down of pagan temples in 391 AD. Just like the Statue of Athena in Athens, Zeus's great monument and the temple that housed it fell into disrepair as more people converted to Christianity and abandoned worshiping the old gods. It was believed to have been destroyed by a fire sometime in the 5th century AD.

[georgios_]

1:44 Greece wasn't just this back then. There were a great deal more Greek lands in the Balkans and Anatolia.

[FlyingPenguin]

Not really sure you've used the right map here. It shows the borders of modern Greece, when during this time Greece was not its own country (was part of the Roman empire) and many, or even most, Greeks lived outside of these borders (in places like Anatolia, Middle East and Italy).

[pseudomonas]

It's more complicated that that. The paganism in Late Antiquity's Greece had few in common with the Classic Greek Olympian dodecatheism. During this period, have been introduced in Greece many Eastern cults, like the one of Mithras, or even a mix of Egyptian and Greek divinities like Serapis, and even the Neoplatonic schools, didn't have much in common with the ancient philosophy (Neoplatonism had a lot of Oriental mystical elements in it, that the classic Platonic philosophy would have never accepted ). The decline of the old religion was already happening since the Hellenistic times. As for the destruction of the ancient monuments, well the barbarian invasions have a lot to do with this. The Germanic tribes, like the Herules and the Goths, launched devastating invasions to Greece for two centuries. Τhe Herules destroyed much part of Athens during the invasions of the 267 AD, and later the Visigoths of Alaric destroyed completely Olympia during their devastating invasion of 396-397 AD. Many ancient posts of Greece were sacked and destroyed much later, during the Ottoman occupation of Greece by the Europeans, like the barbaric French Catholic clergyman Michel Fourmont, who raised from the ground the remains of the Ancient Sparta in 1730 AD. Or the destructon of Parthenon by the Venetian troops of Francesco Morosini in 1687 AD. Or even recently the sack of many antiquities of Amphipoli by the German troops in 1917 during the First World War (old "habits" it's difficult to stop i guess...).

[gelisgeo]

Significant errors: You use map of modern Greece and you describe the years between classical Rome and Greekorhodox East Rome . Very confused for people who don't have historical knowledge.Furthermore You mention how Greek mainland cities became christian but you forgot that the Greek Center cities and regions like Ephesus Alexandria Pontus was the cause of transformation and now are out of modern Greek map...

[nikospapadopoulos]

At a time when the majority of (those we call today Greeks) lived outside the geographic area of modern Greece, mainly Asia Minor, S.Italy & Sicily and many in Levant and Egypt (the two largest metropolitan Greek speaking cities then where Antioch in Syria and Alexandria in Egypt that where the third and second largest Megacities after Rome in the Empire) and all Hellenistic centres say in Syria Laodicea or Asia Minor (the 7 churches in west anatolia St. John mentions in the Revelations) Ephesos, Smyrni, Philadelphia, Pergamos etc speaking of the geographical region of todays Greece (if you did the video a little more than a century ago would you include only half of what is now Greece because these where the then borders?) makes little sense. Especially, if you still want to focus on the geographic region of mainland Greece and Aegean again cutting it off the western Asia Minor major Greek cities (most bigger than those of mainland Greece) distorts the reality of the time since west and east coast plus islands of the Aegean constituted an economic and cultural unity (outside the political wider one under Rome).

[Pemmont]

Great video as always! Unfortunately there's a bit of an error at 2:22
You've put the Island of Samos quite a bit more south than it is. It's the small four-cornered island further to the north, about two-thirds down the Aegean, just off the coast of Turkey. :>

[syedahmed]

I don’t understand how people say the foundation of Western Civilization are Christianity and the Greco Roman heritage and then deny that Byzantium was part of the West.

[kapekape]

We, maniots, are known in Greece for staying free and never being ruled by the ottomans or the venetians. Well it seems that this region have a long history of being stubborn and neglecting the new norms and staying faithful to the old traditions

[Jonnybravo]

As a Greek Orthodox, I thank ya for tackling the topics that only I am interested in

[universalspaceexpeditioner]

Make one for how Cyprus was Christianized please, as it was the first Roman region with a Christian Governor.

[timothyp.]

When I was in Sicily I stood in a Church that was built directly on top of a pagan temple. Part of the floor was glass so I was able to look down at the ruins.

[stelvisify]

Apostle Paul's first missionary journey was actually to the Greek people of Cyprus around 45 AD