memes aside the HRE was a significant institution. It lasted for a thousand years, well over the Augustan treshold, and helped shape Europe as we know it today. It was an integral part of the general development of the continent and it's frequently misunderstood partly because its history is so difficult to tell.
13:28 “Rome didn’t fall, it turned into the Catholic Church & the British Empire didn’t fall, it turned into the bank” I actually heard Jimmy Carr say this on JRE
I would say the fall of the Roman Empire was in 565 AD. With the outbreak of the Justinian plague. The armies under Belisarius had just reconquered Italy and were about to realize Justinians dream of re-establishing the western half of the empire when due to the plague they had to evacuate the peninsula, never to return in full force. It’s from this point on that the Byzantine’s slowly lose territory until 1457.
Love the ancient Egyptian empire. The fact that they built the pyramids without modern technology deserves respect. Rome got too big for its own good. Big empire mean thinned supply lines. Also, too much taxes
The comment about rome becoming the church was ricky Gervais the comedian, on joe Rogan. He said the roman empire became the church and the british empire became banks. I'm not too sure about either of those, I haven't really looked into it, but hey, sometimes it takes someone from a different profession to notice something others haven't before it gets noticed. maybe he's right. britain being the hub of global trade for such a long time soo close to modern day it's not impossible that britains elite found another way of keeping some form of power, same goes for the roman elite and the church.
Everyone wants to be the new Rome. The Ottomans, The Russians, The HRE (Charlemagne was pretty impressive) and the Catholic Church. The Pope does claim the title of Pontifex Maximus, which was a religious office under the early Roman Republic.
Actually rome did have an army, it was basically the same as the british empire. The Roman's used auxiliary or mercenaries in each section of their empire then when each section was attacked the auxiliary would defend until the professional roman army arrived. Britain had the colonial troops (auxiliary) and had them defend their land until professional british troops arrived. My actual belief is that the british empire expanded as a trade empire like Carthage but defended it like Rome.
@@delanovanraalte3646 territorial empires include military force. 80% to 90% of britains empire came from beating other empires and being given their land. Britains army was never big enough to take land by force. Even when it achieved status of largest empire in history it had an army of 250,000 whilst france, germany, austria, and russia had 1.5 to 3 million. Britain never took land, but knew how to defend what it had which led to larger lands, which it then defended, leading to more lands.
The videos by this guy is impossible to watch. He doesn't know how to edit to put sufficient pauses between memes to allow you to reflect or even laugh, and he doesn't know how to prononce half of the names of things. So he says ¤#%#¤& and you go "huh? What was that?" but then he's already moved past 6 other memes in the time it took you to think. Also did he even invent the Polandball phenomenon or has he just stolen that and made it into plushies?
I'm a 1453 guy. If the Western Empire had survived, then nobody would dispute that the Eastern Empire 'counted' as Roman. It's all just HRE propaganda! Plus the Rome of Augustus and the Rome of Romulus Augustulus were so different in so many ways, I don't really see the differences between the more Greek Eastern Empire and Western Empire as a bar to being Roman. I mean, the England of today shares very little with the England of Harold Godwinson, but nobody claims the modern one is "not really England".
The Spanish crown collected titles by marrying into all the royal houses of Europe, it wasn't by conquest, and that dragged Spanish people into conflicts like the ones they had in Italy and Holland.
LOL, Japan is cool, they may not be in God's good graces, but they do no harm to anyone since WW2. So I would rather have today's 2020s Japan over 1920s Japan any day. The entire world should learn a thing or two from that country by the way.
Portuguese person here. Im very happy with my country owning half the world at some point. Even if we're not the greatest, at least we set our names in history
476 ad makes sense if you understand how that was arrived at 1453 makes sense if you understand how that's arrived at There are different ways you can arrive at later dates, non continuous methodology relevant to my saying in contexts
Hi ! Didn't you watched ' Kingdom of heaven ' ? The title of king of Jerusalem before Saladin was frankish , ( Godefroy de Bouillon founded it but refused to be called king of Jerusalem) not spanich..
After the fall of Acre in 1291, the lands of the kingdom of Jerusalem were lost, but King Henry II did not renounce the title. The title is associated with the king of Naples when the Pope awarded it to that sovereign. In 1442 Alfonso V of Aragon incorporated Naples into his Crown, and in 1469 the kings of Aragon and Castile Ferdinand and Isabella (the Catholic Monarchs) married, giving birth to Spain and since then the king of Spain has inherited the title of King of Jerusalem.
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