Also no mention of the Crusades. At first beneficial to Byzantium allowing them to regain some lost territory the Crusaders later turned against the Emperor and sacked Constantinople.
While Justinian certaintly was a clever and ingenious emperor, most of his military conquests can only be attributed to the genius of another man; that of general Belisarius. Justinian, conservative in his spending of limited resources, almost always left Belisarius with the mininum amount of manpower and finances to deal with situations. This is understandable, as reckless spending and betting too much on a single endevour could send the Empire crashing down. Nevertheless, this general (whom some scholars argue should be classified among such names as Hannibal and Caesar) succeeded in almost every endeavor he was sent upon, and did so with unyielding loyalty despite grave slights from Justinians side. I am somewhat baffled that a video about Justinian does not even once mention Belisarius' name, as without this man, Justinian's legacy would be non-existent.
I certainly believe that Belisarius should be mentioned in the same category of generals such as Hannibal, Alexander, Khalid Ibn Al-Walid, Admiral Yi, Napoleon, Caesar, etc. He was truly that good. I wish he had been given the proper resources. Who knows what might have happened.
A very common mistake in this video: Constantinople officially became Istanbul AFTER the founding of the Republic of Turkey. Istanbul was never the official name of the city during the Ottoman period, it was Konstantiniyye, "Constantinople" in Ottoman Turkish.
Emperor Justinian certainly saved the Eastern Roman Empire, although his reconquest of most of the lost territories didn't last long. The building of the Basilica of Haghia Sophia, the codification of Roman Law, the establishment of the silk industry (outside of the overzealous Chinese Empire) were his legacy for History onwards. My deepest respects for such a controversial and brilliant man!
Certainly saved?Makes no sense.Roman state at the time he started to rule as sole Emperor was not in position of something just before fall as you seems to imagine it.It was a stbilized and strong state nowhere near to collapse.Most of his military adventures did more damage in a long time horizont then good.
Actually in retrospect many of Justinian's policies proved to be harmful - there is no doubt that he was ambitious and had a grand vision. But this was only made possible because his predecessor the accountant emperor Anastasius (431-518) left the treasury with vast sums of gold and the earlier 5th century emperors (Zeno) managed to gain control of the barbarians in the army (the opposite of what happened in the West). They did this by bringing the Isaurians into the army to reduce Germanic influence. But on Justinian, if he had of stopped expanding once he took control of Africa and Sicily then he would have been in a very good position. The decision to attack Italy simply stretched the Empires resources too far and left the Eastern borders exposed to multiple Persian attacks which sacked and depopulated multiple cities in Syria. The loss of cities like Apamea and Antioch was a real blow to imperial power in the East. If you read closely after Justinian you will observe a continuing decline in the Roman's Empires force projection capabilities in the East - it all can be traced back to Khosrau's sack of Antioch.
Constantinopole in Greek means the city of Constantine, and even the name Istanbul from the turks comes from the Greek phrase : Εις την Πόλη (eis tin poli) wich means into the City (City with a capital C means Constantinopole).
To be honest, I'm not sure what would be best, if they would flee, and let the people live, or when they decided to not run away, and killed 30K people.
While there is a Saint named Sofia, and eventually were churches built in her name, the Hagia Sofia in Constantinople(or others, like in Thessaloniki), are not named after the Martyr, but mean "Holy Wisdom," and are short for "The Holy Wisdom of God" or "The Holy _Word_ of God," meaning Christ, who is the wisdom/Sofia or Word/Logos of God.
2:15 to 2:37 basically everything said is completely wrong -It survived for over 1,000+ years, not almost a thousand years -It most certainly was not a irrelevant power for most of that time, yes, it had less territory, but even past the ad 1,000 during the reign of Basil II, the empire was still the most prosperous of the known world, besides possibly china -No, Justinian was not the empires last hoorah, for that he competes with Basil II and the empire during 1176. This whole video feels like you know nothing about the subject and really don't care about it.
Khan Academy is a whole organization that is based on educating and don't say they didn't do any research. The person talking is Sal Khan, and search him up.
The map you are using is a present one, as it shows the Aral Sea dried out as it is today. During Roman times it was probably much larger, as it started to shrink in the 1960s.
Udai Gill They inspected the map and basically tried to split it in half, though it's obviously it was based only on the sides and West Rome had much more land.
No.There never was any walls or unpragnable line between two halves of the Empire and Romans never oficially established anything like two Roman Empires.There were two Roman courts(sometimes even more) but oficially there was always only one universal Roman Empire.It never was like that two completely stand alone and to each other foreign states were established.
@Joseph Stalin Diocletian offically split the empire in half, and was really the only one to do so(officially). He ensured the longevity of this division by establishing new groupings of provinces, some belonging to the east, and some belonging to the west. He established two emperors. Each emperor was to have a junior emperor to succeed them, and continue the succession by electing their own junior emperor. Constantius was the junior emperor of the west. Diocletian wasn't the first to divide the empire between east and west, or to have an equal co-emperor, or junior emperors, but he established a long-lasting legal precedent for it. The first division of east and west was between the triumvirs(an official legal position with all the powers of an emperor) Octavian and Marc Antony. As powerful as a Triumvir was, the position had to be continually ratified by the senate. It was essentially a dictorship, but longer than 6 months, and shared between two people. The division of provinces and authority was very similar to the divisions of the 3rd-5th centuries.
Romans but cause roman was close to western church and eastern church had a problem with that around 1500-1600 thay started calling eastern roman empire byzantine Btw byzantine comes from the former name of constantinople
His knowledge of geographical boundaries and historical context are very difficult to prune from a wikipedia article. Though, to be fair, most of the usefulness of Khan videos comes from his critical thinking skills, since he's able to summarize vast topics effectively while maintaining the most crucial info (usually).
@@ΣωκράτηςΠαρίσης Greece didnt exist till 1823 , created by Bavaria -King Otto , go and learn correct , And Justinian was born in a vilage neht to Skopje Macedonia , MAcedonian
now ive read about the climate change which forced peoples downwards into europe from the steppes etc. but this map (alongside another ive seen on gdp estimates of roman empire circa 200 ad) makes my IPE trained mind feel the east west split quite obviously f****ed the western half. so here the eastern gets thr trade with the persians, major trade routes through bosphorous and cairo to red sea to whole of asia and e africa and india. West, on the other hand get iberia and britain?, nowhere to go tradewise. rome and italy were v wealthy via colonial haul as opposed to strategic placing (anymore) and now in the poor half, weakening year by year and full of plunderable wealth. that is, until huge sources of wealth were descovered westwards a thousand years later (americas)..... interested in any historians view on this observation and its role in decline and fall...
The KHAN academy does not understand the forces behind the NIKE-uprising. Justinian was a Christian-socialist emperor, who wanted to humanize the old Roman laws. Justinian was supported by the lower classes, united within the BLUE-party. The uprising was lead by the conservative aristocracy, united within the GREEN-party (the colour of paradise for brave warriors). The Greens wanted a return to the old Roman laws and an emperor of noble birth. The massacre of the rebels, among many senatores, and later punishments of the Greens led tot the accumulation of enormous wealth in the hands of the emperor. With reconquering the West and building the Hagia Sophia Justinian would become an extremely succesfull nationalsocialist leader. But GOD was not on his side...….
Sharkalope productions the vandals were Germanic/iranien amusinf enough. The came from the caucasus Region and settled shortly in iberia where the Germania Part comes from. Later on when other Germanic tribes those People immergrated to modern day Tunis.
Wonder if Turks will ever stop trying to claim other civilizations/empires and historical figures as their own. Well...atleast they're not quite as bad as Slavs and African Americans at trying to steal other people's achievements and fame.
@@edrickhuge4637 Where did you ever read that the Vandals came from the Caucasus? We actually know their locations and even their language. It's typically East Germanic.
When the Islamic Empire came, all these empires were destroyed Islamic empires were the strongest And has continued to dominate the world for 800 years While European peoples and others were in the dark
lmao. the downward of european empire is because from islamic themselves. they banned all european christian to make trade in middle east route. but with that colonialism happen because spanish and portugal empire are seeking another way to trade with far eastern empire in china. and giving birth to a golden age of european christian from that. but what about islamic empire that conquer the place of the fertile crescent? that was once home of brilliant thinker and philosopher? none. still stuck in 7th century thinking because of islamic force indoctrination to convert the whole population to become muslim. hahaha shame on you!!
