Justinian's Wars of Reconquest: Every Month 

The plague: *Yeaaaahhh.... about that...*

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Also the Sassanids... And the Lombards....

@@theotheagendashill818 I don't think that he was albanian or slavic.

@@noienzalbe9661 Albanians are not Slavic by origin

@@theotheagendashill818 jealous albanian nationalist spotted

@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd ???

@@theotheagendashill818 To be honest, that happened.

@@theotheagendashill818 like "Theo the agenda shill isn't gay"

@@theotheagendashill818 Mongols especially in fingolians are the master race

korean war was a inside job

Oh my God are conspiracy theories. This stupid nowadays

Going up and down the shaft. I gotta say I like the long Italian one more though.

Those Franks are player 5 not 4 -Player 1: Byzantium -Player 2: Ostrogoths -Player 3: Visigoths -Player 4: Vandals -Player 5: Franks But if you wanted to add Godes & Pudentius Revolts then they are Player 7

Yeah

@@Anti-CroatismLeader all of them are albanians

@@Engifarting456 1 day ago Raúl Gonzalez says that those Franks are player 5 not 4

@@Anti-CroatismLeader Fake history

I honestly think it's hilarious how the Crusaders fought agianst Christians and not only muslims , let alone their killing of jews .

Aimad Tareksson and then the crusaders made it so the Byzantine Empire was too weak to defend against the Ottoman Empire and the Ottoman Empire was muslin thus letting muslins into Europe.

@@lilchad-ig1oj The Venetians did nothing wrong. The hellenics had to pay for the massacre of the Latins; pay your debt to the Venetians or btfo

"what are you doing step-crusaders-"

@Roswold Ferrugia The Angelids were certainly horrible.

They both gay

@@Engifarting456 Sorry but i don't take false history.

@@raulgonzalez8564 yes you do

@@Engifarting456 ?

Feels like age of civilizations 2

Extra Credits had a series that featured him, Justinian and Theodora. Really good.

@@mrbyzantine0528 Ye that one was great

@@mrbyzantine0528 Plus they made a series on Justinian's Rival, Khosrow I of the Sassanid Persian Empire.

@@theotheagendashill818 lol albanian nationalist who claim other countries history

@@angelmapping6086 i think he might be joking...

@@Abid0 idk man he is getting on my nerves because i hate when other people calim our history

@@theotheagendashill818 what the hell is this so called "Albania conquer Zhe whole world! " meme Are you Vladimir Lenin's son?.

@@theotheagendashill818 ok you might be the best history troll I've encountered yet...

@@theotheagendashill818 usa is Albania

The only Albanians that had anything to fo with the Romans were the inhabitants of Alba Longa who were Latins and had nothing to do with you Skiptarians. The Skiptarians came to the lands of Roman State in the 14th century, when they arrived in Greece (some in Peloponnese) and were very disloyal and bad subjects, so the Romans had to kill many of them during a rebelion of theirs.

So you say that the Romans were Albanians and then you say that Albanians murdered the Romans? Are you insane? Also no, the Romans of Greece are fine and well today

Funny that you accuse me of spreading lies and propaganda, while you have hijacked this comment section by telling everyone how everything under the sun was Albanian

So truths huh? And where is this evidence you are talking about? You have not provided any to anyone to whom you have told your nationalistic ramblings...

What???

@@kelvinpang438 I think meant those byzantine enclaves

1:37 - 1:58

Anthony Nakhoul 1:48 I think you meant.

They all albanians

Wrong Vid mate

The conquests were after his death. And they happened after the byzantines and persians stopped fighting. They even teamed up against the caliphate at times. But Khalid ibn Al Waleed was simply unstoppable.

@@haitamc5611 Khalid ibn Al Waleed wasnt unstoppable, he scored victories with the will of Allah, nothing is unstoppable except the Most Mighty

GritoBelito Exactly Justinian screwed over all of Italy except Sicily and left no way for his successors to defend his gains.

Tyler Ellis yeah. A lot of people are caught up in Rome hysteria and ignore that, acting as if the Ostrogoths themselves are the problems

@@theotheagendashill818 Theo is very gay

Cyrus Tha Great Exactly Before Justinian the Ostrogoths were a loyal Romanized vassal that paid tribute to the sole Roman Emperor who ruled in Constantinople. Justinian ruined a pretty sweat deal.

THEO the agenda shill I admire your dedication but you need better insults.

Justin Y. Is a gay serb

byzantine empire is nonsense name....is the eastern roman empire!

@@theotheagendashill818 True

luca castellaro It’s the Roman Empire not Eastern.

Tyler Ellis my fault, you're right

Byzantine empire did not exist, it was called Roman Empire

Later... Justinian: We managed to conquer Rome. Lombards: Allow us to introduce ourselves.

@@merrittanimation7721 yup

Nic5 Cyprus Ostrogoths were invited into Italy by Roman Emperor Zeno and were quite loyal and Romanized until Justinian screwed it all up.

​@@theotheagendashill818you are fake

@@merrittanimation7721 Well the Eastern Roman Empire actually held Rome and half of Italy for 200 years after, the lombards only got the north. The important parts of Italy which were Rome and southern and central Italy were under Roman rule until 755CE

Agreed.

@@theotheagendashill818 what has Albania to do with this?

@@theotheagendashill818 ofcourse they did

@@theotheagendashill818 how could i be so blind!

@@theotheagendashill818 yeah and the gypsies had a civil war back then

Albania is fake nation today, imagine 500ths. 😂😂😂

Italy belong to Byzantine

@@rickyyacine4818yessir

@@theotheagendashill818 albanians never existed and the land that you have corresponds to the city-state of Epirus and they were Greeks. Home of Piros and his dream of conquering the west just like alexander the great conquered the east. shut up you albanian extremist and nationalist stealing history. Get out of this comment section you gypsie .

You are not even Albanians, you are Skiptarians! There is a difference you know!

This is so unrelated I’m struggling to follow what is being argued

Una città bizzarra e chiassosa I don't think he changed Italy that much, but it was definately a senseless mistake to try to conquer Italy, when the Byzantines never could expect to hold it.

Axel Andersson well they held Southern Italy until 1072 soooooo. But he should have stoped after the easy and rich conquest of North Africa.

@@axelandersson6314 Italy lost probably about 30-40% of its population and GDP from this 20-year war, which caused substantial changes to the demography and economy of it that would last a long time.

@@TRAINAlytics What was the population of Italy at the time?

@@axelandersson6314 Somewhere in the ballpark of 10 million right before his conquests.

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Ur a hero

you ruined italy man 😭

the Muslims probably would have said otherwise about your empire existing

Thanks, mate.

@@fidelcastro4649 you are welcome :) but dont u think its a bit late to answer

@@kingofnaples3241 Well I only found this video now

IT BROKE NEW GROUND!

Africa was losing it's worth as a desired territory. It used to be able to deliver grain in the same rate as Egypt, but possible climax change put Africa into a worthless position not long after Justinian's Reign. Italy was still prosperous until the Wars destroyed it & maybe had the War ended after Belisarius's first conquest of Rome & Ravenna, it could've given time to rebuild, but he was recalled to Constantinople on the glimpse of victory by Justinian either due to jealousy or the Persians By the time the Romans reconquered Italy, the gains became worthless with how war torn Italy became & only 3 years after Justinian's death did the Empire lose most of their conquest with Justin II trying to separate himself from his uncle & "be his own man" by siding with the wrong people & angering the Lombards that Justinian had made peace with

Yeah let's just ignore apocalyptic plague and extreme global cooling that occured right during the reconquests People here are hating on Justinian a little bit to much

Not true at all, the empire was pretty stable till maurice was deposed by phocas in 602. People hardly ever talk about the predecesor to the arab invasion, the byzantine-sassanid war of 602-628. Both empires effectively destroyed eachother to the brink of collapse. The byzantine empire had just 3 years of peace before the arabs invaded

@@theotheagendashill818 Are you going to spew your bullshit under every comments ?

Rampant Mutt from what I’ve heard was that plague, famine and severe depopulation was common place

The goths left a lot of preexisting Roman laws and norms in place, so I can imagine that the change wasn't too terribly drastic. Still, it was enough to drive Latin and Greek people from Italy and into Greece and Anatolia.

@@theotheagendashill818 of course it was the albanian invasions, hail satan and all

@@theotheagendashill818 fair enough

Except for when he sabotaged and humiliated balisaruis , the best general of the period , in fear of a coup that would never happen . I remember reading an account that after the war Justinian blinded balisarus and stripped his money to make him weak , imagine that. One of the greatest and loyal Roman generals was an old blind begger who died on the streets coz his leader was a paranoid man . I don't mean he was a bad leader. But he wasn't the best either .

@@ahmadtarek7763 he never blinded belisarius

How are u

@@theotheagendashill818 So there are tombs and other monuments in Italy in the Albanian language

@@theotheagendashill818 Can you send a link with photos from Italy

@@theotheagendashill818 I don't care

@@theotheagendashill818 You are talking without facts

Anaplinove Exactly, the following Emperors didn't seem to even bother opposing the Lombards, so it would seem as if the Empire truly wasn't in a position to hold italy. People should look to Basil THE BULGAR SLAYER as a model Byzantine Emperor instead.

@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd At the end of this video they are defeteated

@@theotheagendashill818 Yes

Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd Got stomped by Narses you mean the Lombards?

What was the Byzantine empire?

@@stevenjames6830 "The byzantine Empire" is a derogatory term to disinherit the eastern roman empire. So in other words the byzantine empire is The Roman Empire.

He was albanian

@@Engifarting456 No he was a titanian

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it was narses

Unless you are oghyuz turks

What? How? There weren't any changes in the map...

Perhaps you could find or write an alternate history about that.

As an Italian you really shouldn't consider the Gothic War as "help against the barbaric tribes". Italy was actually doing really well under the Ostrogoths (especially under Theoderic the Great) and the Roman culture of the penninsula was thriving. The Gothic War ruined that, and the penninsula would take over 1000 years to fully recover again.

agreed francesco but bear in mind romans were mixed both greek and italian anyway i hope italy and greece act as allies again and not like ww2

@montecuccoli mental midget? You are a moron, did you and marvelfannumber1 read what I wrote or don't you understand English?! I said that the Gothic wars ruined the italian peninsula, that's undeniable, but in a view of the byzantines, they tried to regain the glory of the former western Roman Empire, and such spirit was nice and touching to me, but in the end the italian peninsula became just a province of the eastern Roman Empire, and that wasn't so remarkable. Also I said, what if the Ostroghots or the Lombards unified Italy during middle age?! Italy would have been an empire like the UK, France or Spain during the 17th and 18th centuries. I love the Roman Empire, but I never said that I despise the Ostroghots or the Lombards, and to be honest I would have preferred that the Franks never invaded Italy to conquer the Lombards, no hundreds of little micro-states and city-states would have ruled the italian peninsula for the next 1000 years, but a big single nation. Also what about the Pope and the Papacy, a very large part of the fault is to be attributed to them.

@@TheHunterOfYharnam I hope that greek-italian wars will never happen again in the future, but let me say that italians and Mussolini himself, weren't racist against Greeks. He just wanted to recreate a modern Roman Empire conquering all the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, nothing personal against Greece or Greeks, you were on the way, it was just a dream of a provincial man ended badly, period. He also spoke to defend Italians, Greeks and Spaniards against Hitler when he said that Germanic and Nordic europeans were better than Greek and Latin europeans, so he or us had nothing personal against you.

he already did that one.

Well Justinian stretched the Byzantine Empire thin and that ultimately meant the whole Empire could be at risk of collapse.

@@Munchausenification that's what we learn, but we never learn how he managed to control such an empire

@@theotheagendashill818 good bait attempts, stinky nationalist

@@ARG0T nah he is just a troll

@@Gia1911Logous He had Narses the eunuch in Italy which proved to be a godsend since he administered the province quite well and ended the Ostrogothic resistance. North Africa was safe because of the weakness of the tribes to its south. Spania didn’t need many men because of an ongoing Visigothic civil war.

There are some campaigns in AOE2 that take place near this time period , mainly the visigothic , bari and to some extent the hunnic campaigns . There was a custom campaign about balisarus that started with the battle of Dara going through the riots of Nika until the Gothic wars .

Sources , mainly the writings of a historian called Procopuis (not sure of the spelling )who accompanied balisaruis on all his campaigns describing in detail what happened , there must have been other sources as well .

@@theotheagendashill818 you are crying because you never had it

Drink every time, Rome switches hands. Dead

Nevermind the fact that Italy's population and nominal GDP contracted 25-50%.

Fatma Demir Cause it was already the Roman Empire what kind of question is that.

Not necessarily. The Eastern Romans maintained a presence in Italy for the next 500 years, and held on to Rome itself for 200

@@aidanator8008 Yeah, it was mostly symbolic as time went on; power increasingly went to the Papacy in Rome to govern the Latium region.

Aidanator 800 their power in Italy was weakening though because of the Persians, arabs, scars, and lombards. Finally the Romans were kicked out of Italy by the Normans

Darth Vitiate you forget to mention their resurgence under the Macedonians were they reestablished themselves as the dominant power in southern Italy.

Nah man 1204 was

Kopronymos We’ll just meet in the middle and say 476 was

@@ChrisS-jd2us 455 and we get ourselves an agreement

Kopronymos Ok that’s a date I can agree with

But the plague was not saw devastating in the east and west at all as it is many thimes shawn from Ireland and Britain through Italy to Cyprus Holy Land and Syria-Phenicia it killed from 10-30% of people not many more exept vor Constinopole and Alexandria and Antiochia or Salamina and Paphos in Cyprus where it killed 40% 50 %of inhabitans

No

No

@Kostas anagno actually, the germanic conquest of italy was not nearly as devastating as rome's reconquest. the germanic invasion did not involve nearly as much destructive warfare as the byzantine's invasion

Theo, your memes that born dead are a repetitive trash

"Hahahaha, I will pick the country's name and I will add gay, haha fun"

@Kostas anagno actually that's not true, the byzantine conquests were what caused the dark ages. read up on it

Kostas anagno but anyway it’s definite that the Roman invasion of Italy caused massive demographic damage, killing 4 to 5 million of Italy’s 7 million people, and laying the groundwork for the Lombard invasion that caused Italy to be fractured for the next thousand and several hundred years. Their conquests introduced justinians plague to Western Europe which caused further damage to France and Spain, and it overextended the Byzantine empire which allowed it to be nearly crushed by the Sassanids and then by the Arabs some decades later. It is also well attested that gothic king theoderic the great was a great patron of culture and the arts in post Roman Italy as well.

stupidest ever

yep, when the byzantines conquered italy, as well as the second, when the ostrogoths took most of it back, then the third, when the byzantines took over italy again

I don’t like it when people call it Byzantine or the Eastern Roman Empire or the successor’s of Rome because they are Rome they are the Roman Empire

THEO the agenda shill yaaaaaas

THEO the agenda shill in what ways?

THEO the agenda shill To my knowledge Albania never controlled the Byzantine empire

narses