The rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire - Leonora Neville
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Most history books will tell you that the Roman Empire fell in the fifth century CE, but this would’ve come as a surprise to the millions who lived in the Roman Empire through the Middle Ages. This Medieval Roman Empire, today called the Byzantine Empire, began when Constantine, the first Christian emperor, moved Rome's capital. Leonora Neville details the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire.
Lesson by Leonora Neville, animation by Remus & Kiki.
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Byzantines were total idiots
“What do you mean the ships are walking?”
-Last Words of Constantine XI, 1453
2:04 the clay maker has 1 arm but 2 hands are on the pot
And there comes the Christians ruining everything AGAIN
And here comes the Christians ruining everything again.
Do one on Georgian Kingdom !
1:35 Pull the lever, Kronk
3:11
who´s here after revelations?
*DEVLET-I ALIYE, DEVLET EBED MÜDDET OSMANIYE, EL MUZAFFER DAIMA*
Oh, It's called East Roman Empire, not Byzantine Empire!!!
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Did the byzantines really have golden mechanical birds, hydraulic engines, and mechanical lions?????
Peasants: Istanbul
Also peasants: Constantinople
True intelectuals: _Byzantion_
All this coming up after my ap world history test 😑😑
To bad that edge wasn't enough to beat the Sassanid Dynasty
Actually most history books would say 330 ad
...WHAT THE FRICK DUDE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL EMPIRE AND THEIR CHRISTIAN WHY YOU ATTACKING THEM CUZ YOU WANT A THRONE
"What's now _Greece_ .... *AND TURKEY"*
Also missed how more contributing to their downfall the Seljuk Turks were.
Im byzantine
Byzantine Empire never existed. The term Byzantine its a trick invented from the Western Europeans to steal the romam heritage from the Greeks. There were never such a think as Byzantines, just Greeks who became Romans and ruled the leftover Romam empire for almost 1000 years.
Ζήτω ή Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων
+Saint Dragon no. The Roman Empire existed.
"Byzantine Empire never existed."
It did existed.
can turkey just rename it konstantiniye please thanks bye
"Who were the barbarians? Non-Romans said the Romans being invaded by non-Romans."
Costantine was a pagan most of his life and if he was a christian it was when he was on his death bed, dont misinform people.
Its not BY Its VI
I think its fair to say Rome fell in the fifth century, how can you call yourself emperor of Rome when Rome isn't in your empire and most of your rulers were Greeks?
The most accurate thing you can call it is the eastern Roman empire.
The Byzantine Empire fell because of islam. Byzantines were at war with the persians. After the war, islam conquered persia and then Constantinople. The crusades happened because the byzantine emperor asked for help against the muslim advancement in the middle east. Christians have been the victims for 1400 years, die or convert to islam. They also destroyed everything that defied the quran, they set the world 1000 years back destroying Baghdad, alexandria and Constantinople. They dont teach this in schools because it doesnt fit the narrative. They always trying to make it seam how christians and the crusades were bad and Islam was so good. When thats simply not true .
Bullcrap
Be wary
Angry greeks, italians and turks below
How to start a comment's war:
Say that you're Venetian
The Byzantine Empire is the Greek Empire Part II: Orthodox Christianity. All orthodox churches still have domes to this day.
What was part I?
In Turkey we still call Greeks and Turks as Rums . Which mean Roman . Such as medieval kingdom like Sultanate of Rum and famous phylsopher like Mevlana Celalettin Rumi . Thats why we have such similiar culture and genes .
It's ottoman sultan, not emperor
Its time for a crusade
I mean the byzantines kinda cut kids wieners of and that’s why I what’s them
A civilization destroyed by the Ottomans for nothing. A land stolen by the turks.
There is the arab style
Constantinople=Istanbul
Ezio Auditore helped with the fall of the Byzantines.
This animation is awesome.
Talks about the Byzantine Empire but never talks about Justinian and Theodora
Thx Byzantine for the spoons
yea, ok.
Awesome video thanks
You did a whole video about the Byzantines and never mentioned Justinian . . . How?
respect from China. salute to the Roman empire. our ancient friend
It’s poetic, Rome began as a city, and ended as a city.
back when Rome was still a republic it was split between Octavian (Augustus) in the west and Mark Antony in the east so my theory is that he was the real first Byzantine emperor long before Constantine and the splitting of the empire
So sad this empires fell due to corruption and plots.
Very interesting
*Kwaryntine Empire*
Byzantine empire fall to ottoman empire
It hurts me and my friends watching Constantinople in the hands of allah
+Captain Souvlakis So maybe you should say "it hurts me and my friends watching Constantinople in the hands of governments" instead of "Allah". No???
+Ahmet Altiner No... It's the governments fault the civilians have nothing to do with it
+Captain Souvlakis "I" personally tried to change it???
+Ahmet Altiner it's a Cristian church and you try to change that
Captain Souvlakis why?
The Eastern Roman Empire died when it became the Byzantines.
My books never said the Roman Empire fell in 5th Century B.C.
Roman+Byzantine=Greek
The animation is so funny....
Byzantine was crushed by Muslims 💪🏽😐
+sanjay a p p
Arabs were defeated by west not by Israel, however, we were told by our prophet that Jews will occupy Palestine and he prophesied that we will kick out Jews from Palestine.
similarly arabs got crushed by israel.....hahahaha.......israel occupied palestine.....lol
To be honest the Byzantine Empire was the successful empire whom ever lived through 800 or 1000 years
but It still broke my heart when the fall of Constantinople
Imagine how badass it would be if the Byzantium Empire lasted to the modern day.
**Crusade noises**
Good viewing. Should be shown in schools. Well done.
Fun fact: It wasn’t the Turks who came up with the name Istanbul. It was the Byzantines. Since Constantinople was the only major city in the area, people heading to Constantinople would say they were going “to the city” which in Greek is “Is tan polis” eventually the phrase “is tan polis” became Istanbul. People were calling it that for some time before the Turks came along.
It wasn’t officially renamed Istanbul until after the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Turkey.
AC Revelations taught me well.
realistically every empire fell eventually
1453
My heart goes through tachycardia due to too much excitement.
Khalid ben alwalid entered the chat
When Mehmet conquered Constantinople he added Caesar to his titles and many believed his empire as the continuation of Rome but under Islam.
Ted Ed is very awesome. The best history video in the AP class.
3:00 The 4th Crusade aka THE CRAZY ONE!
Crusaders who originally made a deal with the Venetians to ferry them across the Sea by attacking a Christian city called Zara which was rebelling against Venice, lead to the excommunicating of both the Crusaders and the Venetians. So when they turned on them, the excommunicated Catholic Crusaders attacked the largest city in Orthodox Christianity, leading to the capture of the 4 Horses currently residing at St. Marks in Venice. AND ABSOLUTELY NONE OF THE HOLY LAND WAS TAKEN OR EVEN SEEN BY THE CRUSADERS.
Not a single mention of how Islam and the Rashidun Caliphate were the real reasons of the fall of the Byzantine empire
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night.
Such a great christian empire now a muslim country
There are 2 errors in the video:
1. Alexios Angelos didn't promised to give money to the crusades, he promised to give 1000's of soldiers to crusaders to help them retake the lost city of Jerusalem.
2. Crusades didn't occupied any region of Byzantine empire for more then couple months.
It was Greek under a Roman banner.
Apparently, Attila the Hun himself saw the walls of Constantinople, and walked away.
I haven't known Byzantine name used first time after a hundred years later of the empire fell down
Byzantine are still romans
The Hagia Sophia was made by the greatest Roman emperor EVER Justinian
Such a simplification of a such complicated era and area...by the way Michael (michail) palaiologos wasn't Roman but peloponese...at least do your homework wright before making a "history" video
Istanbul is a stolen town from Europe,take it back
Tom Dan in your dreams
+Macun Kaplıcalı one day we will😎
Tom Dan come and take if you can :D
Sort of ironic how people fought ages and ages for their now long lost nationalities, considdering the countries that eventually survived the tests of time. All we are doing now is closing these blood-stained borders to all people who might have been our nationality just a few hundred years back.
At the end of the day it's just people fighting other people.
I think 4:26 shows a really bad bias in this video. They really want to call the Byzantines Romans but really, as mentioned immediately after, the Byzantines turned their backs on the gods of Rome, the city, and the language. As someone whose second major is in Classics: Latin, I cannot refer to this group as Roman. They may have viewed themselves as a continuation of the Roman Empire (Constantine being, in my view, the last emperor of Rome as well as the first emperor of Byzantium once he moved the capital) but they just weren’t really.
+Tad Tranclere When Rome fell, it was centuries since the eastern provinces were Roman. The united states have existed for a little more than two hundred years, when Rome fell it was at least 500 years since Greece was Roman.After being under Roman rule for so long, it's ridiculous not to consider them as Roman on the pretext that they do not speak Latin.
They adopted all the elements of the Roman civilizations (constructions, laws, customs ....) except Latin. It does not matter if they spoke Greek, Aramaic or Coptic. The Eastern Romans were Roman because they had adopted the Roman way of life.
And then a country does not cease to exist after a change of capital, nor after its fall.
And then, all these changes have been progessives.
Edict of Milan authorizing Christianity in 313, fall of Rome in 476, Greek only official language of the empire from the reign of Heraclius in 610.Between Constantine and Heraclius, it is as much time as between Julius Caesar and Constantine.Any country change.The empire is Roman because it is the direct continuation.
And then the fact that the Greek becomes the official language does not change anything because the Roman civilization saw the day thanks to the Greek civilization. In fact, it is the Roman civilization it is the Greek civilization in Latin language.
The Roman Empire is the continuation of the Greek civilization (architecture, art, mythology, military tactics similar before the adoption of the legion, Latin writing which is actually a modified Greek alphabet).
The "Byzantine" empire does not exist. It is the Roman Empire, it is only a 16th century German historian who decided that the empire had changed its name after the fall of Rome.
tyrex 355 it’s not Rome anymore once Rome itself has been abandoned.
Countries are changing. The Roman Empire of the time of Constantine was itself very different from that of Julius Caesar and even more of the time of Romulus 1st King of Rome.
You omitted the Byzantine slaughter of Western Europeans living in Constantinople prior to the sack of Constantinople. After the assassinated Emperor did not pay those soldiers who assisted him, since he was dead, those Western European soldiers were starving to death. The new Byzantine Emperor could have paid them...and given them food....especially since the Eastern Roman Empire got more direct benefit from the Crusades than did Western Europe. Also you omitted that the Byzantine Emperor promised military aid to the Crusaders...but delivered next to nothing. The Eastern Roman Empire did nothing to assist with the Crusades...though they benefited greatly from the sacrifices of the Crusaders and Western Europe. And you omitted the numerous Byzantine attacks on and occupations of parts of Italy. You also omitted that the First Crusade was an answer to the Byzantine Emperor requesting the Pope for military aid to defend his borders from continual Muslims attacks.
It should be noted that Constantine did not want the city to be named after him. He wanted Nova Roma (new Rome) but his cult of personality changed it to be named after him.
why are there 666 dislikes...
_Christian_
_Roman_
So like the Holy Roman Empire? Hahahahaha.
great video, easy to follow
Constantinople calls for aid. Will Rohan answer?
In the end, one thing is certain ... though the Roman’s copied the Greeks in nearly ever facet of culture... Greece still had a more successful Rome than Rome did.
Byzantime is Greek empire lol
sum bots huh
3:13 BIG CHONK
Byzantine history is a part of Greek history 330 - 1453
Hello
I don't understand why Greeks are mad Constaninople is called Istanbul today... Istanbul is a greek-originated name too.
elite cataphract 😜
Byzantine Empire we miss you :'( you stood strong for so long and brought such beauty to the world, but met the same fate as every other Empire after all.
lesson of the story.
dont swindle armed mercs that have a tendency to cause violence when swindled