What was Byzantine Constantinople like? | Byzantine Empire, Hagia Sophia, Constantinople History 

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Mongolian here. Had the pleasure of going to good old Constantinople 5 times. Imagine my surprise when I saw that there was a church called "the Church of St. Mary of the Mongols". Nice little place in a beautiful, chill neighborhood.

This really puts into perspective the damage the Crusader’s sack of the city. Constantinople truly was a shell of itself after that.

I like how you show these ancient cities at the tail end of their power rather than at the height. It really gives it a much more nuanced perspective hearing about how they recover from such devastating catastrophes

Can I just say I love all your videos, but "day in the life" videos such as these are my absolute favourites.

You should do a part 2 during Constantinople mid years.

4th crusade was such a disaster. The empire could have lasted so much longer

appreciate the effort for this style of video. Definitely a step-up from your older travel videos when you traveled from east to west.

This video is nothing short of awe inspiring! Thanks a lot for all the work you put into it, I really dig the style

YESSSS Jabzy, please make more of this content, we love it! Maybe something like Ming china would be cool if you did this to it!

So great thanks!

Love these videos, so happy you made a new one.

Yes! Please keep making these.

Gonna give this a view and like early since youtube doesn't seem to like these ones in the algorithm

Excellent work *Jabzy* =)

Absolutely love this stuff

Great video.

These videos are always so interesting.

This is gonna be great!

Aftermath of being sacked in the fourth Crusade tho 😩

bro this is incredible

Great video

I love this style of video

In my opinion your videos like this are your best work, same with the tudor england video. Please do more like this they are awesome.

This video is AWESOME! I love the pixel art graphics and I love your character as a genie. Super well done! Love this. Please more like this

Your videos are awesome. Not only do you have a great script with your storytelling ability. But the animation is terrific! Always look forward to you new videos

Very big fan I really appreciate your content it helps me out a lot

Lovin the art style

Love these videos

Really like the style of video. Keep it up!

6:16 The Basilica System after years of restoration reopened just two weeks ago and it doesn't have one but two Medusa heads both of whom are brilliant examples of Roman era architecture, garnering a lot of attention.

Amazing

1-i love the authentic jabzy gestures. 2-how are you mostly British as a finlandr? 3-ive been to almost all the places you listed and the cistern is actually the most awesome by far

Thanks!

Love the pixel art, super cool

Easily one of the most underrated channels! Legit has thousands of videos and not enough subs!

Kickass. Really dig it, would love a similar video of the city through the ages. Either way, you have gained an avid subscriber.

I really like this new animation style , pixel style , Amazing video, you should do tour of Athen in this animation style too

Congrats on 200k it seems so short when i first saw your videos a few yeara ago about the iran iraq war

I really like these types of videos please do more maybe ancient China next

This new art style is great.

I really love the animation..

damn someone got a new artist. holy shit. nice!

Dropping a comment for the algorithm

keep the survival guides! they are the best !!!

Im going there next month!

You should do a video on a list of what you think wars that could be considered world wars. This could include the Islamic conquests, Mongol conquests, 7 years war and napoleonic wars

CKIII needs a focus on institutions like this, namely things like poor houses where people may be trained up into roles, and other buildings that add benefits for the holder/realm

Cool!

Amazing video showing the authentic Constantinople before it was destroyed by the Ottomans, however after it was already destroyed by the backstabbing Crusaders!

You need to make a game with this seriously

As a Greek this was weirdly emotional

I live in what was known as Constantinople and what is today ''Fatih municipality'' in Istanbul. I live right next to the Theodosian walls, these walls and many Roman era artifacts are true masterpieces.

Man did you do the city yourself? Love the artstyle, how did you do it?

Absolute fire but wish you could extend it a little like the Rome essay (economics and currency)

These "day in the life" series where you walk through the avatar across the streets are the best

dude the old school rpg animation is just sooo great

I really wish this was a series of video games we could play now

Very fascinating video, thanks for putting it together! It's always fun to get a glimpse of what life could have been like in these places. It's easy to see why this city was so highly regarded. Constantinople was an absolute wonder. Istanbul still is, of course, but in its heyday it was leagues ahead of the vast majority of the world. also why u do constantinople dirty, crusaders >=((((

Byzantine? Weird way of saying Roman but alright

Better than current Istanbul for one obvious reason because of who occupies it now....... Cars and Traffic Jams....

Someone needs to create Constantinople Simulator This looks so cool

Pls make video about persian empire :)

You should do one during the komnenian restoration before the 4th crusade

How's about one for Cleopatra's Alexandria or Louis XIV's Paris, please?

Is the animation style inspired by a video game? If so wich one?

Jabsy the game when? ;)

I think i got that kind of life down, stay up straight for five days get all my sleep on the sixth and on the seventh I awaken!!!

I love that you show how Constantinople was highly culturally diverse, with a flood of influences from the east. One correction I have to state is that the ships would have triangular Lateen sails and not the rectangular sails of ancient Rome. Just like how the Northmen that settled in Normandy had a complete cultural evolution from viking Norse men, infantry using longboats ,round shields to form shield wall formations and secaking monnastaries to Norman Knights on horseback wielding kite shields that went on crusade for Chritendom , so to did the Eastren Roman Empire Evolve into the Byzantine Empire. The Early Roman Empire had a distinct culture , Helinistic architecture ,tunic wearing nobility, legionaries fitted with Lorica segmentata, a Gladius and a scutum. At the split of the Empire into west and east, the separate governing bodies went about doing so in differing manners. The west still relying on the regular legionaries but faltering, thus using more and more mercenaries and adopting their shields, swords and armour such as Gothic armour and such at the end of the day the western Empire fell and this severely expedited the evolution of Eastern Rome into Byzantium. With all connection to Rome in the west lost, the Eastern Empire utilized more and more soldiers from the region in their Empire. Soldiers from Greece, Anatolia, the Levant, some western parts of Mesopotamia and all across North Africa. Thus their building material, their architecture and even their army was vastly different from the West because they adopted the effective practices and cultures of the people whom were subject to the Empire. Thus the Eastern Roman army evolved into the Byzantine Army using lamellar armour coats of scale mail , cuirasses, casques and greaves of steel adopted from Persia. Ther shields evolved from oval auxiliary shields to enlarged round shields and then it evolved further into kyte shields that were highly effective on foot as well as horseback. Similarly their Swords evolved from the Gladius, to the Spatha and when they encountered the effectiveness of the shamshir of the Persians and kilij of other ME armies, they adopted this eloquent design into their swords thus the spatha gave way to the curved Paramerion sword. You can see this clear evolution in their navy as well, the rectangular sailed Greco-Roman triremes were replaced by galleys , these galleys were revolutionized by the Byzantine invention of the Lateen sail. A triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast, and running in a fore-and-aft direction. This being the sail that most people to this day see as Middeleastern sails. These sails were so revolutionary and effective because it allows a boat to tack "against the wind". The Byzantine Empire consisting of the ME and North Africa caused this knowledge to be adopted by the Arabs and other ME + African kingdoms such as the Swahili. This sail was also later adopted by the Portuguese as seen on their Caravelles, this enabled the commencement of the age of discovery. The Byzantines were ‘’Roman’’ in name alone, the one part of the Roman empire that the Byzantines retained were their brilliant administrative qualities and their professional army organization and logistics. Thinking of the Byzantines as ‘’Romans’’ is like calling the armies of Richard the Lionhearted ‘’Norsemen’’. The Byzantines were ‘’Roman’’ in name alone , just like how the Germanic kings called themselves Rome as well as the Rus, whom would later also refer to themselves as the rightful successors to Rome. Culturally, all of these Empires were vastly different to the culture of the Old Roman Empire.

Jabzy should just make a game where people can just do all this in a computer game lol

Οἱ ἄνθρωποι τῆς τῶν Ῥωμαῖων Πολιτείας (Roman Republic) ἐκάλουν τὸ κράτος αὐτῶν Ῥωμαῖων Ἀρχῆ ἢ καὶ Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαῖων (Roman Empire). Ἐν τῇ καθομιλουμὲνῃ λαλίᾳ ἐκαλέσθη καὶ Ῥωμανία (τοῦτ' ἐστιν, Γῆ τῶν Ῥωμαῖων). Οὐδέποτε ὑπήρχε τί κράτος ἐν τῇ ἱστορίᾳ ἣ ἐλέγετο Βυζαντινὴ Αὐτορκατορία. Ταῦτα καὶ ἄλλα πολλᾶ γερμανοφραγκικὴ προπαγάνδα τοῦ Καρλομάγνου φαίνονται εἶναι. Ὡς πρὸς τοὺς ἑαυτούς, ἀπεκάλουν ἑαυτούς Ῥωμαῖους (Romans).

Can you one during its ottoman era? alot of people did make videos of constantinople during byzantium but why not one during the ottomans? Especially during their prime

The thing about the hot iron rod is If the wound geht's infected or not. Bassicaly its a medieval version of russian Roulette 😆

why did you choose to do this virtual tour of Constantinople in a period where the city was so run down?

I would rather visit before 1204 thank you

Please provide link for the game?

How the fuck does this only get 25k

You should do a video on the top 20 mass muderers by total deaths and also percentage of country and world population . Many people lie about the numbers and its hard to get a good picture

What game is this

4:02 the Byzantine educational system was the *paideia* a firmly Hellenistic institution.

What country/area do you think has had the worst history and i mean constant suffering for 200 years or more. All I think is haiti or the drc

I'm a little bit perplexed of why Jabzy specifically chose an in media res opening to discuss Constantinople during the Byzantine Empire but specifically only after the Crusaders sacked it? It's a bit disorienting.

Turk: "Why is Hagia Sophia ☪ and not ✝?" Balkans: *dies*

Your MS paint of actual photos is much better then 2D

Here's a quick description: Crushing taxes and no security....unless you are rich.

pls make a rome total war pixel game on mobile

like a 8 bit edit

The real title: "What was Byzantine Constantinople like, after the Latin invaded ?"

The reason why Byzantium was a very civilized nation the fact that it has laws that allow citizen to defend themselves. But aside from no religious freedom. I think Byzantium is relevant empire.

Constantinople was one of the most beautiful cities to ever exist.

I wonder what Constantinople looks like dring the byzantines dring the 800s

While Constantinople was a beautiful city it can never truly compare to the city of wonder and beauty, Detroit.

I like this format but it this is slightly stepping on Maiorianus's toes, he's doing several of these late roman tours and has a smaller channel than Jabzy.

A wild bull made it into the Hagia Sophia? Holy cow.

SO, if Christianity was together as a fist, they would had conquered the world and even further, no mongol/turkish neaderthals, no arabs, no Putin or Boris or Napoleon, nothing , and then the Stars... (warhammer 40.000 vibrations....)

8:45 - 8:57 Now it's IstanNYAAN~ not CATstantinople! :)

Greek Constantinople>> Turkish Constantinople

the loss of constantinople would be like the west using London, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, or Moscow nowadays.

It was Roman, not Byzantine.

Goddam Latins