Timeline of the Roman and Byzantine Emperors 

I find it bizarre that the last western Roman Emperor was named Romulus Augustulus and the last for the east was Constantine. It's like they knew the end was near and wanted to bring it back full circle.

I’m more fascinated by the fact that we have a reasonable idea what most Western Roman emperors looked like because of the statues

Early Roman Emperors: 🗿🌿 Late Byzantine Emperors: 🪙🪪👑☦️

It's fascinating that even though the Roman Empire was far from being largest in the world, it was the only one to ever control the whole Mediterranean and have a lasting influence that shaped the continent and the Western world.

"I found Rome a city of clay and left it a city of marble" - Augustus Caesar

Imagine being able to travel from London to Jerusalem and still being in the same country, no matter if you were in Syria, Italy, Greece, Egypt, England, France, or Spain, you were in Rome still the whole time.

Constantine XI. A ultimate chad, didn’t hide behind his troops or flee Constantinople, he fought and died with his empire after him.

This doesn't even count the 700+ years of the Roman Kingdom and only the turning point of the Republic. Two thousand years of culture and history. These past few months, I've really fallen in love with Rome. Absolutely amazing

And yet it is amazing how long this state suffered blows of fate, remaining one of the most powerful powers of that time.

" Basil II the *Bulgar Slayer* " Now that's a badass name

Music used: Final Days of Rome Armada Molto Piratissimo Final Days of Rome (again) All composed by Two Steps From Hell. You're welcome

Rome:- Was Am I a good empire ? God:- No, you were the best....

"As my kingdom falls, i shall fall with it." -Constantine XI

Roman Emperor : Sculpture and coin Byzantine Emperor : Weird painting and coin

Ancient China and the Roman Empire communicated with each other through the Silk Road, and the two countries often gave gifts to each other. There was a deep friendship between the Han Dynasty and the Roman Empire, the Tang Dynasty and the Byzantine Empire.

Majorian is underrated, he reformed empire tax system so it actually earned money, subjugated visigots after their rebellion, same for gauls and almost got rid of vandals (if not bribery he would actually do that) and honestly if he wasn't murdered by his general that though this is best time to take over, when the empire had really powerful and good emperor that was capabale of restoring it maybe Empire would last as long as Byzantium.

Constantine XI does not get the praise he deserves. He was the last of the Emperors of the Romans, and he chose to defend his City to the last breath, when he could have run.

"No emperor should outlive his empire", Constantine XI. The last emperor of the Romans at his last charge against the Ottomans.

The pinnacle of world civilization you will never see something great than R.O.M.E

Ancient Romans are one of the best or (the best)in sculpture of human statues.They can literally make a stone replica lookalike of someone from a huge stone using only hammer and chisel and make a wonderfully sculpted statue at that.Impeccable.

Last ruler of Eastern Roman Empire was also Constantine. Almost poetic

"Every Roman emperor starting from Augustus" *Begins with Julius Caesar*

Greatest empire to ever exist.

The best empire in world history

Some fun perspective as to how long this empire lasted. Europe didn’t have paper when the Roman Empire started, and 39 years after it ended Columbus sailed for the Americas.

End of western roman empire= Beginning of the middle ages End of eastern roman empire= end of the middle ages.

There's something very meaningful and epic about this particular video. With the busts, the music and the timeline, altogether it entails the greatness of the Roman Empire in a very grand, pictorial yet simple manner. Amazing work. 👏🏻

It just hurts in the heart everytime I see Constantine the XI at the end of the video. A great Empire that'll live in the hearts of men until the end of everything...

Note: a barrack emperor is an emperor who claimed himself emperor while being a simple soldier.

Do not cry because it's over,smile because it happened.

Rome, the motherland of homelands, we have all the advances of today thanks to Rome and its Successors who kept its splendor alive: Byzantine Empire 🇬🇷, Spanish Empire 🇪🇸, Portuguese Empire 🇵🇹, The Various French Empires 🇨🇵 and the Vatican 🇻🇦 all of them shaped the progress and development of humanity and influenced the rest of the powers in the economic, political, sports and scientific section, take Arabs, their caliphates and their Turkish empires do not come close at all! 🇮🇹>>>>>🇸🇦

This timeline is also interesting because you can see how the culture and the art in the country regressed. During the republic era the statues were made with precision and dignity. Coins also were pieces of art. But then the techniques become lost and people don't have a desire to create. You can see fewer statues during the Byzantium era. And the quality of the coins gets worse and worse as well

It’s poetic “Rome started as a city and ended as a city” as well as Constantinople OMG guys thx for the likes I never gotten to this amount of likes before thank you all 👏

Beautiful ! The faces, the maps, the music !

Great video I enjoyed it. Hope to see more soon 😀

The birth of the glorious Roman civilization profoundly influenced almost all western civilization, and its collapse directly contributed to the Enlightenment movement in Europe. I am a Chinese, but I still admire the glory of The Roman civilization, and feel sorry for and miss the eventual disappearance of Rome.

10:40 "Can i copy your homework?" "Yeah just change it up a bit so it doesn't look obvious that u copied it"

The most underrated emperor IMO: Aurelian. Guy is deserving an movie. He did nearly impossible: stitched Empire back together while it was almost entirely collapsed, and we can safely say: he saved the empire and gave it more than two centuries to exist.

There are three great emperors who are tragic heroes : Aurelian, Majorian and Heraclius. •Aurelian saved the empire on the brink of collapse in only 5 years and then was assassinated •Majorian recovered many lost provinces of the Western empire and made several reforms to bring back the empire on track but then was assassinated by Ricimer. •Heraclius saved the Eastern empire from Phocas and the Sassanids after almost 30 years of brutal fighting to be finally taken by surprise by the arabs and losing the provinces he just recovered. Ave Roma !

RIP Roman Empire 😢 🪦 and Rest In Peace brave Constantine XI, the last Roman Emperor, and one of the best, dying while fighting in a tremendous last stand to save the Roman Empire! An Empire with 2,000 years of history, from kingdom to republic to empire!

Western Roman Empire: our emperors keeps on dying Leo the Thracian: Let me send my boi Nepos

6:19 Western Roman Emperor: keeps changing Eastern Roman Emperor: *Leo I the Thracian*

Félicitations et merci pour cette vidéo. Cela faisait longtemps que j'attendais de trouver une classification aussi claire et complète. Congratulations and thank you for this video. I had been waiting for a long time to find such a clear and complete classification.

Perfect Video! So very helpful to any student of the True history of the Roman Empire....thank you so much➕🕊🤍🌹➕😁

Im not crying, you're crying.

Dad: why are you crying? Me:

This is a work of art! 🎨🔥

Imagine if Internet existed in the Roman times. We'd have ancient meme and videos 7000 years long.

As long as we remember , Rome is immortal,

everyone: wearing smart clothes Commodus: OOONGA BOONGA SHOONGA DOONGA HOO HOO

Seeing Julius Caesar at the beginning was heart warming. Forever GOAT

10:49 When your Netflix account free trial ends so you keep on making new accounts with the same information

Never Realized Nero was a neckbeard. If anyone can find his statue, leave a fedora in his head.

"There was a dream, a dream called Rome."

I don't know why i keep coming back to this video but i love it. Maybe is just the choice of music, or seeing the whole history of the Roman Empire but i don't think is a bad thing that it fell. Empires rise and fall throughout all history, having them survive for so long it's impressive. They even lived longer than the persians.

4:18 the music intensifies because of the stability and greatness of Rome under Diocletian,around 4:34 it signifies the rise of Constantine the Great, 4:52 represents when Constantine won and united Rome and achieved greatness, 5:24 rise of the Valentinians, 5:37 Rome's last great generation and hope, 5:49 decline of the Roman Empire, 6:05 Rome is still fighting back, 6:17 Majorian little restoration, 6:29 Western Rome's downfall, 6:44 Eastern Rome is recovering, 7:00 Justinian's recovering Rome phase, 7:05 Justinian dynasty glory, 7:10 deposition of Maurice and 6:55 founding of the Justinian dynasty(sorry for missing that part), 7:17 glorious deposition of Phocas, and 7:18 rise of Heraclius and the Heraclian dynasty, 7:20 lose of Syria and Israel, 7:24 death of Heraclius, 9:15 rise of Nikephoros II and John I,9:23 Basil's conquests, 9:28 Basil II's chadness,10:19 Khomenian restoration

11:18 John V really screwed up

Hard Times create strong men Strong men create good times Good times create weak men Weak men create hard times

My main interest is contemporary history, but I have read one book and several websites about the ancient Rome. Thanks for sharing I really liked this video!

"We are both Greeks and Romans." last emperor on the wall in his final speech.

you can feel the degradation of the empire with timr by just looking at the trend of quality of the sculpture and paints

The key change and vocal change to the climatic finale in 9:14 when it shows Basil II, the emperor who restored most of the Empire's former lands and led it into a new golden age, is just brilliantly put, whether coincidentally or intentionally. Everytime I get goosebumbs upon seeing that moment.

Thank so much for this video

Great work, it must have taken some time to compile the data. What software did you use to create the moving timeline?

Can we just appreciate how much work was put into his? he had to search up all of the names of the roman emporers, having to decide which sources are legit, then he had to find pictures of statues, coins or paintings for all of them, then search up the dates of their rule, not to mention cropping out all of the backgrounds so it becomes black, AND having to draw up the map of the roman empire at the end of their rule.

Western Rome: *has an incredible amount of emperors in a relatively short time frame* Eastern Rome: This Thracian guy called Leo. Take him or leave him.

The scowl on Caracalla's bust is fantastic. They truly captured that "disdain for plebs" spirit really well!

Wow, the empire was declining from about 1:31 onwards with Commodus, yet the video is 11:57. There were still some decent emperors like Dioclecian, Constantine VII and Constsntine XI, but honestly, Aurelian, Constantine, Justinian and Basil II gave Rome the life support to last another 1000 years.

Many have said that their empires would last for a thousand years, yet only the Romans did.

9:25 That's a pretty weird title for an Emperor . **Looks at Map** Oh

Interesting how there is more time separating the end of the Western Roman Empire from the end of the Byzantine Empire than the time between the end of the Byzantine Empire and today.

Majorian is very underrated, he tried to restore an empire way beyond repair! Look at the territory increase, he could have achieved more if he was not assassinated by Ricimer

2:21 , 3:28 , 3:48 , 3:59 , 4:12 , 4:39 , 4:51 , 5:08 , 5:18 , 5:35 , 5:43 , 6:03 , 6:19 , 6:35 , 6:51 , 7:09 , 7:27 , 7:45 , 8:03 , 8:15 , 8:29 , 8:42 , 8:55 , 9:12 , 9:20 , 9:35 , 9:56 , 10:13 , 10:33 , Imagine being ruled by a coin/coins

When you see Augustus, Justinian, Basil II era... and feel pride and happiness. When you see Angelos dynasty, John V and Andronikos IV remnants... and feel sadness and despair. And when you see Marble Emperor Constantine XI Dragas Palaeologos, last stand of the great Roman Empire and you dream about restoration of the Empire.

4:56 GigaChad

Constantine XI may have been the last, but he absolutely made his every moment count. He defended the city of Constantinople alone with his army. For 55 days of relentless battle. Long Live Constantinople!

My boy Trajan looking fine with that eastern expansion.

My middle school Spanish teacher always made sure we knew the year the Western Roman Empire fell, for some reason. At random times, he'd choose someone and ask, "year of the fall of Rome?". The answer will probably always be ingrained in my head lmao, 476 A.D. RIP Mr. B

Rome began as a city-state and from there you showed us your greatness. I wonder what we did to you so that you ended up being a city-state as well. Rome did not deserve this, you deserved to show your greatness to the world and we did not let you do it. Although Rome no longer exists, it does in the hearts of your children who speak the language that in the past was the greatest and most glorious Empire on earth. Roma Aeterna 🌿🦅🌿

An empire with Rome and Constantinople Is necessarily legendary

I like how all of a sudden the rulers all decided to grow beards at around 100 AD from then on

Without a doubt, Romans were the most influencial empire in the history. Add early Roman Kingdom and Roman Republic it's 753 BCE to 1453 CE! No other lasted this long! (Unless you count all the Ancient Egyptian dynasties as one)

An excellent audiovisual presentation. Wishing I had this information thus presented in High School.

Rome started as a small city state Rome ended as a small city state When the city of Rome was first built, Greece had just recovered from it's Dark Age, and the Neo-Assyrian empire was one of the greatest empires 37 years after the Roman Empire ended, Christopher Columbus found the Americas

Basil II was an emporor who showed the world that rome still had some fight left in it

Poor old Aurelian - saved the Empire and the legacy of his previous Emperors, only to be stabbed in the back... Rest easy, restorer of the world.

The Romans have left a lasting legacy that has influenced many aspects of modern society. Here are some of the things the Romans gave to us: 1. **Language**: Latin, the language of ancient Rome, has heavily influenced many modern languages, including English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. 2. **Architecture**: The Romans developed advanced architectural techniques, such as the arch, dome, and aqueduct, which have been integral to the development of Western architecture. 3. **Engineering**: Roman engineers built extensive road networks, bridges, and aqueducts that facilitated trade, transportation, and the movement of people throughout the empire. 4. **Legal system**: The Roman legal system, based on principles of justice and fairness, has influenced many modern legal systems around the world. 5. **Republican government**: The concept of a republican form of government, with elected representatives and checks and balances, was pioneered by the Romans and has been adopted by many modern democracies. 6. **Urban planning**: Roman cities were carefully planned with infrastructure such as sewage systems, public baths, and forums, which have influenced urban planning principles to this day. 7. **Literature**: Roman literature, including works by authors such as Virgil, Cicero, and Ovid, has had a profound impact on Western literature and continues to be studied and celebrated. 8. **Art and sculpture**: Roman art and sculpture, inspired by Greek traditions, have contributed to the development of Western artistic styles and techniques. 9. **Calendar**: The modern calendar system, with its twelve months and seven-day week, is based on the Roman calendar. 10. **Military techniques**: The Roman military, known for its discipline, organization, and strategic innovations, has influenced military tactics and organization throughout history. These are just a few examples of the many contributions the Romans have made to our civilization.

1:03-1:33 is EPIC when the five good Emperors show up 😊

1:23 My main man Marcus Aurelius

Interesting how the artistic representations of the emperors went from realistic sculpture and well-detailed coins prior to the collapse of the third century, to simplistic stylized sculpture that disappeared entirely by the middle of the fourth century, and coins that became artistically debased to the point that they look like something barbarians would bash out (first in the West, then the East). No, Justinian, you can't get quality work like that anymore!

I love how John VIII has this Renaissance level artistic design and then it just reverts to Constantine XI.

Long live The Roman Empire. The eternal city of the world.

"bruh i just woke up tf yall want?" -Maximian 4:19

Let’s appreciate my man Basil II the Bulgar Slayer for not only double his empires size but having the most majestic painting.

Bonjour, C'est quoi le logiciel utilisé pour faire une frise chronologique qui défile ?

Fascinating 👍 Thx from Munich 😉

"Consider then, my brother and comrades in arms, how the commemoration of our death, our memory, fame and freedom can be rendered eternal." - Constantine XI Palaiologos' last speech to his men

People in 306: "I don't think this Empire can become more divided!" The Empire in 307: "Nonsense!"

I am impressed that we today have an unbroken record of all the Emperors of Rome 😃 It is a real tribute to how highly organized and advanced the Roman Empire was.

Latin and Greek language, culture, philosophy, math has shape the European continent