Walls of Constantinople: The Last Great Ancient Fortification 

I'd love to, but you didn't mention SurfShark even once in the video?

Jeraco in modern day ISRAEL!!!! Palistine never existed

Yeah, you’d think he’d talk about it for two minutes in videos of this length, but not a peep. If he’s not convinced how good the product is … 😃

@@Jimmy_in_Mexico Wow, where to start. Jericho is in Palestine. Most of the world has accepted that Palestine exists. The English offered the first two state solution in 1919. Palestinians are known in Arabic as “philistines”, which is a name you would recognise if you had ever been anywhere near a Bible. The Palestinians have been there just as long as the Habiru and longer than the people of El (Hebrews & Israelites aren’t the same thing, you see)

I have the impression simon was drunk

The walls proved to be extremely effective during that siege. But the defenders were doomed against such a large army and with little hope of being relieved.

Good reference! Similar thing happened at Monte Casino during WWII. Some of the rubble there made better fighting for the Nazis. Some of the Allied Forces there took many casualties taking the old Monastery.

@@wills2140 it s not nearly the same lol.

The walls were always rebuilt in the evening!

Everybody is forgetting that this was not the first time that Constantinople was attacked by Muslims. Much earlier (674-678), the Arab empire put a siege of over 20,000 strong to force the city into surrender. The defenses, however, were too strong and the Byzantine Empire still had immense power in its hands. The army had to leave their positions due to Byzantine Fire and just the shear strength of the force inside, not including the advanced walls and innovative technique.

The white blaze powder ;)

He was in a good mood. Maybe he got a chew and a strong coffee

I was going to put this, normally the blaze is subdued in non-blaze channels, only just seeping in. This one is verging on YA BOI territory

I was gonna say... he's pretty amped up about them walls.

Blaze always gets recorded first. It requires to most energy :)

I couldn't tell if he said lamp or lamb but thought the same thing lol

Must have 😂😂

I had to rewind it to make sure I heard it right 🤣🤣

Finger on the cultural pulse.

Simon has seen a movie?!

I walked those walls back in 2005 and since then I always made the joke that all of Istanbuls homeless are living in those walls.

@@ClassicFormulaOne1 Them and the street dogs and cats.

Same as italy lmao

@@ClassicFormulaOne1 to think before the ottoman turks it was held by former eastern romans.

@@mrnobody6447 they were greeks keeping the roman culture and empire alive. That is why the city should be returned to Greece

ALRIGHT WE GOT WHITE WALLS, BLACK WALLS, SPANISH WALLS, YELLOW WALLS. WE GOT HOT WALLS, COLD WALLS. WE GOT WET WALLS. WE GOT SMELLY WALLS. WE GOT HAIRY WALLS, BLOODY WALLS. WE GOT SNAPPING WALLS. WE GOT SILK WALLS, VELVET WALLS, NAUGAHYDE WALLS. WE EVEN GOT HORSE WALLS, DOG WALLS, CHICKEN WALLS.

#BuildThatWall

@@BabySkinCondom Dusk to Dawn ? Pretty cool roundabout reference.🤔🇺🇸😎

Sugar walls?

@@c.blakerockhart1128 omfg I didn't notice that till you said that 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love that movie

Columbian motivational powder, I will have to use that 🤣😂

Which powder? Colombia is famous for a brown one and a white one...

@@catjudo1 I’m pretty sure it’s both!

Well played!

This commentator is definitely high.

I often wonder how the world would have been if the Byzantines had survived long enough to partake in European colonialism. They practiced slavery but unlike most of Europe they had greater respect for human rights and were far more tolerant of other races and other religions. They usually had a more collaborationist policy, preferring to co-opt local leaders and bring them into the empire rather than outright conquest and pillage. I can picture them building more of a mercantile empire similar to the Italian maritime republics using colonies rather than the European model of rape, pillage, and enslave. Their civilizations downfall was one of the darkest moments in history and we can see how advanced they were just by looking at the renaissance. Part of the reason it happened in Europe was due to Byzantine artists and scholars fleeing the Turks westward and their arrival changed the course of European culture and eventually lead to the enlightenment. The Ottomans went through a similar change after taking the empire, but they were more like children playing with an adults toys: they didnt really appreciate what they had and were more squatters than anything, once they'd copied many ideas and innovations of the Byzantines they didnt really change much after that and didnt innovate much themselves and soon they went from more advanced than Europe, Africa, or most of Asia to being on the same level as Europe and before long they were the "sick man of Europe".

He's definitely a mood changer! He'd get great results I'd he was a teacher.

Have you watched Business Blaze?

Spoilers dude, i like to be suprised as to where will we end up. I like to think that Simon is like horde from "Split, Glass" and Danny and other script and editing team work when he sleeps.

Indeed

I've read that one term for these early cannons was a "bombard" and that they shot round stones. I also read that engineers soon realized that a smaller iron ball could reach a considerably higher velocity and consequently do more damage. The cannons could also be made as effectively with far less metal. Impressive stuff.

I was looking for the comment about the song lol

@@Joe_Potts ditto… how does a TMBG reference get overlooked?

You weren't

The Heirloom Yedikule lettuce today, is an atypical oblong cultivar that is extra crispy and tasty, and is part of the local cultural heritage.

Can we get an episode on this please! That sounds fascinating!

Think I'll wait for the film.

This is Roman building

@KIKA P2 if you would've asked the byzantines, they would,ve called themselves romans, not greeks.

@KIKA P2 those were Romans architecture not greek

@@selimsahkulu78 It's pretty much the same thing man.

@@waltroskoh8650 It's not the same, the Byzantines are Anatolian. And they call themselves Romans, and the Greeks are invaders in Anatolia. Anatolia has always belonged to the Hittites and Trojans.

He could do one on the Inner German border as well.

@@Darkwizzrobe did he already do the seigfriend line?

Is that the neo armstrong cyclone jet armstrong? It has a great finish!

Is that a reference to Marcus Brody in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? Because if not it should be.

Yep

Why? Lost unshaven sheep happen all the time.

All alone, or in twos, some stagger and fall. After all, it's not easy, banging your head against some mad bugger's wall.

And a thousand years later they did!

Many of those who waited didnt get to see the end of it wow.

Problem for the besieger is that with a city like Constantinople is that if you do not control the sea and generally the invaders of Constantinople did not, the city can get food in indefinitely. And the city has the infrastructure to receive, store and distribute food for tens of thousands of people and has the housing to boot. While the army outside the walls has not got any of that luxury. So the living conditions of the besiegers will most likely deteriorate faster than those of the besieged.

@@barthoving2053 Drinking water was the biggest problem, so they built cisterns to store it. One of them, the Basilica Cistern, is so large they used to give tours of it in boats. Now it has walkways -- more convenient, but not as impressive. The cisterns were filled by aqueducts, and there are still traces of those around today.

Hello, is there anybody in there?

Fan base is growing so I bet its a boost

The great restraining order keeps me away from mine 😭

What would have elicited an aww five years ago now gets an eeeek. Even from me.

Better to keep your "crush" away, than keeping your "kush" away. lol

@@seanbrazell6147 Don't ever let them change you

What wall is this,?

Anchorman is the single greatest cinematic event of all time...

@@johnathandavis3693 oh please I'm totally not prepared for this, I wasn't expecting it at all *pulls flute from sleeve*

@@MajesticSkywhale -he should have gotten an Oscar for that scene....

I got a grenade! AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!

It was a big problem that Giustiniani died by accident.

the true 2nd and other longest stone-brick wall is in India and Indonesia, build by local Ruler, 2nd longest city/fort wall is Kumbhalgarh Fort, Rajasthan, India, 36km, China Great wall 100x more longest about 3k Km, other Fort in India like Daulatabad fort, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India, Chittor Fort, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan. India have alot fort and castle thousand of it, just like Japan because each province have own ruler. Red Fort and Agra fort build by Mughal Emperor also famous. In Indonesia the longest is Buton Palace Fortress, Baubau, Southeast Sulawesi, 16th century fort. Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia have many city wall, except in Philippine and timor all build by Colonial European, fort and palace wall, but just average. example in thailand, chang mai city wall, bangkok city wall, and southernmost peninsular local near Malaysia, build by Malay sultan of Singgora, Songkhla fort or Sultan Sulaiman fort and Songkhla[Malay;Singgora] city wall. Benin wall are rampart not true wall. In Indonesia, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, Bali many of city wall are gone or demolish by Dutch but some survive, In Java, city gate/gateway are most to survive called Gapura or candi bentar. many wall condition in bad condition even some people take the brick to build road and houses. In Myammar, Royal Palace Mandalay is the best preserve palace and city wall. Northeast India like Manipur, Assam city wall are similar to Burmese archiecture and style. included roof style.

I would love to hear about this.

Omg yes!!!

The Simon clones are changing .....

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

That's nobody's business but the Turks'

For business blaze, simply lock Danny in the basement and feed Simon cocaine 😂

The chinese one is working , the problem being that they expand their territory beyond the confine of the wall.

The constantinople wall did fail eventually . Simon should explain the megaproject super massive cannon that bring that wall to a crumble .

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Tell that to the Chinese. "Aaarrgh! These Mongols keep trying to tear down our wall!"

Let's not forget the astronomically expensive German luggage system that shot baggage across the open tarmac at 80mph which necessitated spending millions more to have a different country fix it. After the jackass named Pena bailed on it when he became sec of interior for designing our monstrosity. Simon would have a blast with DIA.