If he does Basil II, and the first three emperors of the Komneni dynasty, he'd have a direct history of the Byzantine Empire all the way from Irene to the beginning of the Angeloi.
Thank you for your patience! This took a long time to make, but I'll have a lot more free time over the coming months so hopefully the next one will come a bit quicker :)
looking at the empire's map now, i gotta say it just had too amyn fronts with too many diverse enemies. so many resources were needed yet so few at hand, they needed to prioritize. diplomatic blunders did not help either. it does seem Basil II had the best substats of all macedonian emperors before him, plus enough power to actually do anything. truly a fascinating period for the romans.
@@AcidProphet That's high praise; and to answer your question, I haven't had any lessons but I guess I've just gradually improved my cadence and rhythm
Good vid, awful initial Byzantine borders. It’s crazy to me how RU-vidrs instead of historians are the ones who downplay Byzantium’s borders after the war in their own dedicated vids and ignore the fact the treaty with Peter restored the borders to those of 904 Emperor Constantine VII even mentions cities like Mesembria, Adrianople, Serres etc still being cities in the empire with command positions in his books with Imperio and Ceremoniss. Let alone the fact that he flat out points out Bulgaria no longer has land above the Danube which was lost to the Pechenegs who hindered Rus traders on their way to Mesembria. Bulgarian Empire mapping ruined mapping on this time period, it’s sad to see.
I often see a lot of mapping videos disregarding that John I's reconquest of the eastern bank of the Danube. They always just show that he only retook Thrace. Nice to see that the Danube is shown to be Roman I'm a bit of a map nerd Those lands (formerly called Moesia Inferior & Scythia) were lost only in 986 when Basil nearly lost his life but also lost most of his army in a similar fashion to Nikephoros I in 811, at the Battle of Trajan's Gate I really like John I He was better than his uncle in a lot of ways. I feel like if he lived for another 10 years, maybe Syria & the Emirate of Aleppo get annexed into the Empire. But he did leave western Bulgaria unconquered & it allowed the Bulgars to regain their strength under Tsar Samuel Maybe we could've gotten a conquered Syria in a decade longer reign for John I. And then a fully conquered Bulgaria by the end of Basil's reign This is just me making up a fantasy at this point 😂
Honestly, John I was the goat; if he had lived for ten more years, he'd definitely be as famous as Alexios Komnenos and Basil. John just seemed to be good at everything.
@@SerapeumAgreed, John had a short but very impressive reign. Building on already made success from his uncle, he just added onto the good times for Rome
They were fighting the hamdanid emirate with 30,000 at best and they can raise far more bigger armies, not the caliphates in it's glorious time when the hamdanid were fighting in northern Iraq against buyids and their expansion was halted and reversed when they faced the Fatmaid caliphate
Tell me, why do You use Bad maps and info about the bizantine bulgarian Frontier in this times period?. The Frontier was way North, after the death of tsar Boris and it s ridículos that byzantium would let the bulgarians near the capital. DO A BETTER RESEARCH.
If you want to be a credible historian/history content maker then stop calling them byzantines,thats a fake name that was used long after they were gone,even as late as 1453 they were roman and everyone save for some in the west recognized them as such. Ave Roma.
