History Summarized: Byzantine Empire - Beginnings 

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The world is sadly too stupid for this joke. Love it though

@@rainmbt3855 honestly most of the people on this channel would get the joke. But most of them probably don't spend their time scrolling through the comments. I agree it's a good joke though.

Achilles and Patroclus: *kicks down door* "Do you need great philosophers to have a ship war about who's top and bottom? Do you hate not having centuries of gay fanfics? Have a sh!tty 2004 movie? Call Nobody! Your one stop shop for all of your gay needs!" but seriously, Troy 2004 was so stupid

Africa: *kicks down door* "Do you need to get women? Do you hate spiders? Feeling jelly bruh? Call nobody! Your one stop neighbour to anansi which means he is screwed (nobody, that is)."

He will, trust me.

Dude we'll get a tag team - John Green will identify what periods are named in a boring and suck-y way and blue will rename them accordingly. I.e "the great depression" will be "The Alexa Play Despasito For The American Economy" period

"Only Romans have the privilege of leading an invading army into Rome."

The black death? Population Control: Prototype

@@yotamravid3159 dont you mean: The Big Sad?

HA! SUCK ON THAT HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE! YOU'RE WEREN'T HOLY NOR ROMAN OR AN EMPIRE!

loving this post

I dont agree with first one

@@jsobieski779, they were technically holier than their neighbors. (HRE, Russia, and the catholic church.)

@@aaronward1357 why catholic church? Im catholic myself i i think that only one that can be holy (from things u mentioned) is Roman catholic church

This. Give us Theadora.

Pleaseee! We want THEODORA

Here here.

I would happily listen to Blue ramble about anybody or anything in history. But like, show Theodora some love. Please.

She definitely deserves her own episode.

You're completely right, and I should have been clearer about that. I said "father" because Justin had legally adopted Justinian, even if they weren't biologically father-and-son. Important distinction though, thank you for your comment! -B

The adoption muddies definitions a bit, but I get where you're coming from.

@@OverlySarcasticProductions Legal adoption seem to be rather a recurring theme in Roman politics

@@OverlySarcasticProductions Ah, I see what you meant. No worries, Blue! Still a great video overall and I can't wait to see the rest of the Byzantine story on this channel

@@OverlySarcasticProductions classic Blue. Even when you are wrong, you are right.

No, but he does watch you when you’re asleep...

I lay awake crying about the HRE

@@OttoGraff-fu8pj better be about it's existence

Eru Ilúvatar *everything*

I can only picture that there is like 200 people with the same account that’s goal is just to make comments on every video ever

Agreed

Yeah why

Ikr! That surprise lack of a sponsor, in the introduction of a supposed sponsor, made me automatically more endeared to Blue and the whole OSP channel! : )

Not pure, but, I'd rather say "lovely". He's an awesome narrator (no shade to Red, I love her too)

@@EveryoneElseIsWeirdImNormal Racial and cultural purity is a social construct. Genetic purity is relative, as is the mental purity the OP was actually talking about. I'd guarantee Blue is 100% pure homo sapien, but most humans outside of sub-Saharan Africa aren't.

@Hertocuo Luabeeem Territory is overrated

and baghdad too

@@mahdimehdi445 of course

@@thomasroutt380 sad ptolemy and harun al rashid voices

By the time of the final fire of the library of Alexandria, it was almost empty, and has burned down about five times before that, including one by Caesar.

@@MaxwellAerialPhotography never forget 😢

Yuu Neeq yes

No.

@@rbl4112 time for another crusade!!

R BL yes

Great job Ottoman Turks.

High Silver Mussolini’s Rome is the sequel that was made way after the last two and *no one* liked it

Holy Roman Empire is the ripp off then XD

Mussolini is the shitty remake, the Ottomans are the weird spinoff and Russians are the crazy fanfiction.

Byzantium is more like the sequel everyone keeps forgetting about even though it was pretty good.

@@biliminsrlar5752 You mean it is the Roger Corman Me-Too rip off ;)

When I heard that one I went sicko mode

Much like Shad can be summoned by shouting "SWORDS", Blue can be summoned by shouting "DOMES"

*D O M E*

@@weldonwin FALSE! you summon Shad with.... MACHICULATIOOOOOOOONNNNSSS!!!!!!!

GOLD MOSAIC

What about CASTLES?

CONTEXT REQUIRED

Byzantines: "We've reconquered Italy and North Africa!" God and the Universe: "Well Yes, but actually No."

@@Altarahhn The Lombards: Well yes but actually no.

@@markhenley3097 Ha, nice!

@@Altarahhn Lombards, Arabs and Slavs: "Allow us to introduce ourselves."

@@fede98k54 (+Avars, I think they were the primary reason for the Slavic migrations)

I agree with everything in that except for nerds unless they take that as a complement

Until they get around to it, extra history has a series on the man and his family.

I swear anytime someone says Nobody, I immediately think Odysseus.

@@Lord_Of_Night hold up, was there a part of the Odyssey that i dont remember or didn't read? Whats the context with Odysseus and nobody

@@jaredhayward5760 Odysseus told the cyclops Polyphemus that his name was Nobody. So when Odysseus blinded Polyphemus, the cyclops yelled, saying that Nobody had blinded him. Obviously, none of the other cyclopes took him seriously.

@@jaredhayward5760 he told one of one eyed giant sons of Poseidon his name is nobody.

@@Lord_Of_Night But his daddy did.

Roos Van der Velden hey man did you hear Nobody killed Polyphemus

@@caesarspeaks Nobody?!?! That scoundrel, he doesn't even have enough courage to use his own name...

Who Knows hey man you should really go to this island called Nomanisan, I’m sure you’d really like it if you don’t like that scoundrel nobody

Its been a year since i gpt into byz bois, and i am still dealing with it. ITS JUST TOO SED

I think it was Walpole

@@futursbrite its always Walpole

Yeah, the western powers had a pretty vested interest in dismissing the Byzantines as not fully Roman because they themselves all claimed to be the "true successor of Rome". It got particularly bad once Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor, though there was a suggestion at one point that he marry Empress Irene.

Well, it only became that relevant after the fall of "traditional" rome

@@SonofSethoitae Actually the vested interest of the Bishop of Rome, aka. Pope (in Rome). After the Byzantines lost control of Rome in the 8th century, the relationship of Rome and Constantinople went sour quite quickly. Popes wanted to be the final authority in religious matters, but the Patriarchs of Constantinople supported by the Emperors (for the most part) wanted to have a say as well. The Emperor had been de facto religious leader since Constantine the Great, but Roman Popes had become increasingly independent even as Rome still remained in Byzantine hands. Installing his "own" Emperor in the West was a way for the Pope to signal that he was now completely independent of the Eastern (Byzantine) Emperor.

@@teromustalahti2903 Well yeah, but after the Protestant Reformation happened there was no real reason to keep doing it except that they liked how "true successor to Rome" sounded

@@SonofSethoitae From Charlemagne (768) to the Protestant Reformation (1517) there's quite a leap to be made. Either way, it's kind of irrelevant to consider whether they "kept doing it" or not after the Reformation, since by then Constantinople had already fallen (1453).

Civis Romanum Sum!

I thought I was the only one!

Fagballs McGuilicuddy I do too

Senatus Populsque de Romana!

Lol, same

heraclius was hercules of the byzantine empire

@@OCTBOI yep

He undertook a *Heraculean* effort to do all that, no wonder the Arabs beat him.

The stories of Emperors Justinian and Heraclius are too tragic. Men who were so OP that God himself had to nerf them. The fucking black death with Justinian and the Islamic conquests with Heraclius. Imagine spending a lifetime to achieve a dream and peace, coming close and then see it get absolutely shattered before your very eyes trying desperately to turn the tide and somehow claw your way back till the very end. I guess that basically sums up the Eastern Roman Empire as a whole, huh.

One *DOME* to rule them all

One United Empire to rule them all.

We r protestant and we use Necians creed

I don't know if I'd say surpassed, but I might say he tied.

This is the guy who tried to remake the Roman Empire. He really did have and ego

He did a lot in his life

שלמה > ג'אסטיניאן

Reminds me of that time Queen Victoria visited Alexander's grave just to spit in it. (It's a joke guys, don't freak out)

Pretty much, yes.Since ancient times until the fall of Constantinople they were ruling the Mediterranean world, alongside Romans to be fair.

Its the multidimensional 40D chess man.

Yeah true

Romans: *Conquering the Mediterranean* Greeks: *Manically laughing in the corner while tapping their fingers* W e ‘ l l s e e

@@ilias8972 well don’t forget those in the other parts of the balkans

"This is really high"

“Secundus defecated here” “Secundus defecated here” “Secundus defecated here”

same. I just watched all 23 videos on Ceaser from Historia Civilis and I still want more Rome

I blame it on my Italian heritage.

Thank goodness it's not just me...

Me too.

You are not alone, you are not alone...

Amen, Theodora is the ancient wonder woman if the Eastern World

England and the Netherlands?

@Connor Marlow no shit

*Cedin Dedin intensifies

If you are a gulenist, Erdogan wants to know your location...

@@blackadder6897 what has that guy have to do with my comment?

@@biliminsrlar5752 Nothing, he just wants to know your location...

Well, strictly speaking they were separate until the Republic conquered Greece after the Battle of Actium. Before that, they mostly got their Greek influence through the Etruscans.

@@SonofSethoitae Rome conquered Greece after the battle of actium? WTF are you on?

@@BoxStudioExecutive I should say finished conquering. After Actium they didn't see much in the way of Greek resistance. Greece wasn't officially organized into a Roman province until 27 BCE, four years after the Battle of Actium. Part of Greece had been included in the province of Macedonia around 146 BCE, but there was fairly regular rebellion in the region until after Actium.

as the saying goes " Rome conquered greece,but greece conquered rome" .

Arthas Menethil exactly

I know this is a year old, but I hope you're doing fine

@@florianz8922 Ahaha, I am doing well now. ^.^

Didn't she kill all her sons? I remember one empress being extremely cutthroat. Unbiased history speed runs byzantine history. 6+hours.

@@dudeistpreist5721 A brief search of Theodora's and Justinian's children has revealed to me that the two never had any legitimate children-- Theodora had a son and a daughter before they were officially wed. There is no mention of them being murdered, and there are claims that the daughter even started a family of her own. It doesn't seem that Justinian disapproved of any them either. I have no doubts that there could be an empress or queen like that though. 👀💧 Not Theodora though.

@@dudeistpreist5721 Oh! And is Unbiased History a RU-vid channel?? I'd love to check it out if such videos exist. 👀👀👀

It probably would’ve been nice if it survived, but, you know, it didn’t.

Not like anything really survived from it being on fire so as far as I know yeah Constantinople did the big carry in preserving history

@@NoahWeaverRacing Thats the point, between the times the library was set on fire and times when it was underfunded/not taken care of, we most likely lost centuries of literature, mythology, and various records that don't exist anywhere else. Props to Istanbul for being a source of preserved history, but the lose of the Library at Alexandria and other sites around the world lessens our understanding of history.

*Tags Red*

Words I never thought I'd hear Blue say.

*Aztec

* British.

*Poland

*Inca

I'm pretty sure there's a thing on their Patreon that lets you request a video... Just sayin...

In modern Greek, yes, but Blue probably learnt ancient Greek at college which is why his pronunciation is closer to the ancient one (Rhomaioi, Basile:a Rhomaion)

@@sekharapramod7819 The pronunciation switch had happened hundreds of years at this point. The modern pronunciation is the correct one to use

@@sekharapramod7819 Nope, Jack is right.

R+C=B confirmed

How where are you fromm

You Jammy so and so, I am jealous My school History leapt from the Iron Age to the 18th Century - given that I began playing Ancients Tabletop Wargames at age 16, this left something of a hole to fill, gradually learning about Rome (Republic & Empire), Carthage, Macedonia & Greece, Parthia, Achaemenid & Sassanid Persia, Huns and assorted Barbarians, Dacia, & the Arab Conquests

Not from an American school I guess lol.

Faetyl that’s brilliant and I hate you lmao

@@2yoyoyo1Unplugged : D

Shut the fuck up woman

@@klearkhoswashokani1797 learn to laugh some. It'll help that stick up your ass ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Wcze7EGorOk.html

@@klearkhoswashokani1797 no u

So you should know never existed a Byzantine empire

@@keyos1955 yes the eastern Roman Empire which spoke Greek and had its culture 🇬🇷☦️☦️

@@andreastheo2019 No. The eastern Roman Empire spoke Greek only since Heraclius and Greek was the second official language in Rome since Caesar, so it's meaningless. Also, the culture of Byzantine was Roman, not Greek. They had Roman law, architecture, religion, administration, lifestyle, and many other things

@@keyos1955 religion lol they were Orthodox, and anyways I don’t care my ancestors lived in those times regardless.Good convo🧐

@@andreastheo2019 Dude, what do you think oriental orthodoxy is exactly? Have you ever heard about Christianity, which Catholicism and Orthodoxy come from? They were monotheistic Romans in the medieval age, who started to spoke Greek. That's the most accurate description of them. What do you mean by ancestors? bloodline? Because Greek territories were under the Ottoman domination for five centuries, you know...

Gwenpool She is in Civ 5

@@Halloyaw11 That's the joke

@@LordVader1094 the comment dosent read like a joke at all

How do you know?

theZeitos not that hard. If you live in Tunisia or Algeria you’re probably descended from Carthaginians.

@@tareke586 Or Spanish.

Are you sure you're descended from the Cartheginians? I'm sure there are SOME descendents around the world but Carthage was pretty thoroughly destroyed by the Romans and its people destroyed and/or enslaved. The destruction and cruelty was biblical in its nature, even salting the earth so nothing could grow. The Romans then colonized all of the Cartheginian empire. Later, the Vandals would destroy that territory and colonize it once again for over a century. Then the Byzantines would take it and hold it for a century once again, then Muslim Arabs colonized it hard. I doubt there are many descendents left and if you live in the area you're more likely to be descended from the Muslims who took it later. Same goes for modern Italians. Most of them will be descended from Lombards and Greeks rather than the actual ancient Romans.

@@Aethelhald Not Arabs, but Berber. Arabs are minority there.

It's so rare to find another person who read and enjoyed 'Red River'. Hope you're having a good time.

You're going to be very disappointed when it's bearded, bear-greased barbarian warriors instead

Will they?

@@SonofSethoitae Your saying like that’s a bad thing

@@KomodoMagic big daddy goth bf

@@arawn1061 the goths aren’t wearing black doe

Cheeki Breeki cyka