Underrated Empires
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2024
- From Cyrus the Great, to Justinian the Great, we'll take an incredibly subjective look at history's most underrated empires!
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Alright guys, i kNoW tHAt tHE byZAntInE emPirE iS thE ROmaN eMPire! Also, this is a list of empires that I feel are underrated or misunderstood by most people that aren't into history like all of us. We all know what all these empires are, but if you ask a random American on the street, they probably only know about the Persian Empire (and probably only as the bad guys against the Greeks). Thank you for listening to my Ted Talk and thank you all for watching!
Why did you pin this a year later lol😂
This video just blew up this weekend for some random reason. XD
If we're equating the Byzantine Empire with the Roman Empire, then we'd might as well just say that the United States is the same thing as England.
The Byzantines were Greek-speaking Christians whose core territory consisted of Greece and Anatolia. The Romans, in contrast, were Latin-speaking Pagans whose core territory consisted of the Italian peninsula. They were completely different entities in every conceivable way, including economic systems, political systems, military organization, etc. Yes, there's a historical connection in that one was an outgrowth of the other, and yes the Byzantines own name for themselves was "Romans" (which, btw, the germans also called themselves that for 1,000+ years, as did several muslim dynasties of anatolia). But regardless of what the Byzantines liked to tell themselves, the reality is that Augustus would have regarded Justinian as little more than a pompous eastern twat, and would've spat on him for even suggesting they could be equals. Not that Justinian would've ever suggested such a thing, of course, since he would've regarded Augustus as a vile heathen. Whatever cooky Greek nationalist came up with this idea that the Byzantine Empire was "the same as" the Roman Empire, needs to go read a history book.
Btw, not disagreeing with you that the Byzantines are underrated. It's definitely a fascinating and overlooked empire. I just think it should be understood on its own terms, rather than trying to lump it in with Rome.
@@ndesi62 If the Americans didn't vie for independence and called themselves englishmen, they would be englishmen. Same with the byzantines.
@@HistoryHouseProductions But the Byzantines weren't always the poor weaklings that got little in return. For a big chunk of its history, the Byzantine Empire was the wealthier, more powerful side of the Roman empire, especially as the collapse of the Western empire neared.
In fact, their capital didn't fall to the Ottomans until the 1400s, just before Christopher Columbus arrived to the Americas. That was almost 1000 years after the collapse of Rome!
But I do agree that it's overlooked because most people (especially Westerners) don't even know much about the Byzantines. Makes me wonder if Eastern Europeans and Greeks know as much about the Byzantines as Western Europeans know about the Rome and the [Western] Roman empire.
The Byzantines really do need more attention, but when attention is given it's always about Justinian, while there's multitudes of fascinating features within their millennia long history.
Chernobyl I agree completely!
because belisarius was a badass.
@@TheChuckfuc and got himself backstabbed by Justinian and his cronies.
Eastern Roman Empire, you mean.
Alexios the first was cool too!
Byzantine Empire: *changes colour from red to purple*
World: Greek bad
red(of rome)+blue(of greece) = Byzantium
It's Eastern Rome sir but Byzantium can be also used to make it easier to say 😃
German Lord You call it however weird you wanna call it
Galileo that would be very offensive towards Greeks and I'm a descendant of "Greeks"
German Lord I am too a Greek and don't find a synonym for the eastern Roman empire offensive
14/53... you had to go there
Aside from that, Empress Irene of byzantium almost MARRIED CHARLEMAGNE, it would have been interesting to see the two roman empires at the time become a single empire
I actually didn’t know that. That would’ve been super interesting! I’m glad you liked the video! :)
Excuse me
Wasn't she the one that killed her son
PanasonicBluRay first he praises the empire like oh it’s so great bla bla bla and then he Tee bags them with the ottomans
Charlemagne’s empire is not Roman
A dynasty that lasted for 700 years? That's unheard of!
Danish royal family: hold my beer
Japanese royal dynasty: that's cute.
Haha!
@@shea2023 *imperial family
@@jaojao1768 My bad.
Sad Russian noises
Huh... you think bizantine is underrated by only having a page in the history books? Well The Inca beat that by having to share it's only page with Mayans and Aztecs. Excellent content btw, you got a new suscriber.
I totally agree with you. This video was originally gonna be a top ten list and the Incas were gonna be in it, but I ran out of time and had to cut it down to three. Thanks for subscribing! It means a lot!
What king of Nueva España is that?
Dude idk what you’re talking about they got wholeass chapters for the american civilizations Byzantines are very underrated
In my history classes in my opinion we spent far too long long on American native empires... they were relatively behind and played little to no roll on modern culture.
The Incan Empire was a petty tribal confederacy, and there waa never a Mayan Empire, rather Mayan city states
Constantinople was also known as “Byzantium”
That was the original name of the city.
Now known as Istanbul. Which is nobody's business apart from the Turks. But don't tell the Greeks that. They won't like you.
@@isaacgund7550 byzantines were only first called "byzantines" a century or so after the fall of the empire. prior to that they were called romans or eastern romans, and they referred to themselves as romans
It was originally byzantion before byzantium
Mickey Villadsen we can’t be sure that the ancient town of Byzantium was at the same location of Nova Roma, that then became Constantinople.
Another underrated empire, which actually was invaded by the Ethiopians, is the Nubian empire. They lived along the Nile River and actually made some pretty cool pyramids. They became so powerful at one point that they took over Ancient Egypt in the 8th century bc.
@ϥⲣⲁⲟⲛ Actualy it was the oposite way around
@ϥⲣⲁⲟⲛ New kigdom conquered nubia but then with the bronze age colapse declined im power and then nubians took over until egyptian independence
@ϥⲣⲁⲟⲛ yea i guess is better to be rulled by nubians that have civilization that by berber tribes
@ϥⲣⲁⲟⲛ No
@ϥⲣⲁⲟⲛ and egypt also didnt free themselves, the nubians had a war with assyria and those with their professional Army and Iron weapons attacked and conquered Egypt under Kusch.
“I give them a 14 out of 53” ouch bruh 😂
Oh god, i knew i recognized those numbers, written down like this it suddenly sinks in lmao
The Portuguese Empire is one of the most underrated empires.
Judging from your profile pic, I can assume you aren’t at all biased. XD
It wasnt thay good
The portuguese rebel province of Spain*
@@shaunibabe1 it wasn't that good dude we dominated the sea for decades
@@westernpolitix Actually we were never apart of Spain. We got independence from the kingdom of Leon I believe.
This channel is more underrated than these empires combined
Byzantine empire is just the Roman empire, no step child, just the same person
It’s like they changed their clothes and then everybody forgot that it was the same guy
@@pilgrim4954 lol right
@@pilgrim4954 , like that one episode in Spongebob Squarepants where Spongebob wore another type of pants (round pants) and people didn't that he was Spongebob Squarepants, calling him Spongebob Roundpants instead and thinking that they were two separate people.
The Byzantine empire is basically like a dude that peaked in Highschool. No longer as strong as he was in his prime but wiser and call still pull his weight.
Mr. Not so Nice You mean Obi-Wan Kenobi?
“Byzantine underrated” you clearly havent been to the paradox games community
Byzantine is overrated for me, PORTUGLAL OR ABBASID CALIPHATE OR POLANDLITHUANIA OR ANY DYNASTY FROM CHINA ARE UNDERRATED
No just no
Literally
TRUUUUUUEEEEE
I can relate... it's likely the only reason why I tried to play Byzantium in EU4 (and failed, "thank you" Ottomans)
The Persian empire being as underrated as it is can be blamed on mainstream media the past 40 years though....
After revolution
Iran has 7000 years history when those Greek dudes found Greece we could farm in our own lands
Remember when morocco/the Arabs beat up spain
Yeah me neither
I mean, they did conquer most of the peninsula.
morocco = arabs ! kek now that's where you're wrong my dude
Meftah Marouane Almoravids & Almohads
It was the berbers and the Arabs who beat up the Spanish together lol
Some boys in a really hot desert: ight imma counquer most of the discovers world
the persian empire is my favorite empire in history because there armor looks super cool
i didn't say the persian had more advanced armor, just cooler looking
@The Jolly Pyro the achaemenids had very advanced armor, they are not depicted in achaemenid carvings tho cause the achaemenid didn't carve battle scenes unlike the greeks and the Romans, but for knowing about achaemenid armor you can for example look up the works of greek historian Xenophone which describes their armor in great Details.
@The Jolly Pyro well those armors are the development of the previous achaemenid armor but yeah I agree with you that those later armors became better especially after the rule of Ardeshir pabagan I that the armor technology reached its peak
Immortals.
Interesting fact: Persian soldiers didn't wear armour. It makes sense since the Persian army was mainly designed to fight prolonged battles in the desert.
The Byzantine Empire is the actual Roman Empire. They weren't the neglected stepchild of the Roman Empire. The Western Empire and Eastern Empire emerged after the empire was assaulted on all sides. Because the empire was highly militarized, it became more likely for coups to take place with a disgruntled army. So as result the emperors had to oversee the frontiers to both keep their troops in line and make sure enemy raids were defeated. The emperors stationed weak limitanei or border guards along the frontier who were reinforced by the emperor's main army when enemy attacks occurred. But now the empire was attacked on all fronts in both east and west which mean two emperors. The split was purely administrative and in the minds of everyone there was only one Roman Empire. The closest modern equivalent is the dual monarchy of the Austria-Hungary. When the West fell Odoacer sent the Western Roman Imperial regalia to Zeno the Emperor of the East who was now the sole Roman Emperor. With the Western Empire now defunct there was no more Eastern Empire there was only the Roman Empire. The Greek words for it is the Basileia ton Rhomaion which means Empire of the Romans which fits with the Latin equivalent Imperium Romanorum. The Roman Empire only fell in 1453 which was decades before Columbus set sail West. Even the contemporary Islamic Caliphates long before the HRE and the Turkish sultanates recognized Constantinople as the seat of the Roman Empire. They called the Romans Rumi or Rum. The Sultanate of Rum also called itself that because they imagined themselves as a Muslim successor the the Roman Empire. This sentiment was also echoed by the Ottoman Sultans who took the title Kaisar y Rum after the conquest of Constantinople.
Yeah, yeah, I know. XD A lot of Greeks kept calling themselves “Roman” up until like 100 years ago. Pretty interesting stuff. I just call them Byzantine because the name helps differentiate them from the fallen Western half. Thanks for watching!
Small nitpick: Zeno was not immediately the sole Roman emperor after he received the Western Roman regalia, but 4 years later when the last Western Roman Emperor, Julius Nepos, was killed.
So since the Byzantine Empire was the successor to the Roman Empire, the Ottoman were the successors to the Byzantine empire and modern day Turkey is the successor to the Ottomans, does this make Turkey a direct descendent (or even survivor) of the ancient Roman Empire?
@@TheNormal256 The "Byzantine" Empire isn't a successor to the Roman Empire, it is the Roman Empire. Don't you listen?
@@TheNormal256 Nope, Ottomans were just foreign invaders who took Constantinople from the weakened Romans. Nothing Roman about the Ottomans.
I don't feel like your list is particularly good. The Byzantines are known by anyone with at least an amateur understanding of history.
The Persians are heard of by anyone who's heard about Alexander the Great in school, and so it definitively is a well known Empire, and whenever people go in to detail of it the first thing you'd hear of is their tolerance and great administration system. And their reference in the bible means that every single christian fundamentalist with some level of intellect will know of their greatness.
The Abyssinian Empire seems fairly reasonable on this list though.
The list I would have made the Neo-Assyrian Empire, as they successfully conquered Mesopotamia, the levant, as well as vassalised the Medians and installed a puppet ruler in Egypt, allowing them to utterly dominate the near east. Still, they usually just seem to get mentioned as a footnote before the Achaemenids made their conquests.
Next would be the Gökturks, as they conquered all the way from Manchuria to the Pontic steppe and at the time were the largest empire the world had seen. Yet you quite literally never hear about them.
And then I would have the Delhi sultanate, as they were one of the few states that actually conquered -allofIndia- most of India*, but they are usually just completely overshadowed by the Gupta and Mughal Empires.
New mic, who dis?
It does sound much clearer
Chernobyl It was about time I got a better one. My old one was like $15.
When a whole city comments on your RUclips video
JohnnyDaPrankstaGangsta I certainly do appreciate all the support!
New phone who dis
Remember as a fact told by a persian living in persia province of Iran: in the early 1900's the brits stole over 30000 pieces around persepolis. They released just 2000 pieces of them upon the time.
We might see a really framed empire now.
The Al-moravid empire of Morocco should've been on this. It stretched from the southern parts of France to Senegal in west Africa.
There are a lot of underrated empires!
@Saeed B. Yeah, I know. But the Al-Moravids, Al-Mohads, and Al-Saadis were all greater than the Umayyads.
@@AbdouSefiani The Almoravids and Almohads were fanatics who ruined everything Cordoba stood for. They destroyed the inter religious unity of andalusia
@@m_uz1244 I am referring to their success as an empire not to their cultural or political achievements.
@The Nova renaissance Yeah but they're empire collapsed within 90 years and its Caliphs were hated by all of the non-Arab citizens. Having a stronger army doesn't equal having a greater empire.
You know, south east asian empire like Khmer, srivijaya and majapahit is also quite underrated
I totally agree! I didn’t have room for all the great counties though. :(
Don't forget the Tibetan Empire
@@HistoryHouseProductions I think you just opened up a can of worms. Or raw wounds.
What about the chola empire under king Raja Raja and Rajendra?
tondo?
Great vid, loved the Byzantine/Roman explanation :D
Thank you! I spent WAY too long drawing the Roman soldier. 😂
After that
Mussolini: let's take our revenge on Ethiopians!
Italian Army: well yes, but actually no. We suck lol, we don't have equipment and we are losing again
Mussolini: NO, WE WILL WIN BECAUSE WE ARE BRAVE *order to use gas on Ethiopians*
Ethiopians: excuse me what the fuck
International Community: okay lol who cares
Ironically,an Ethiopian patriot named abdissa Aga is the first one to enitre Rome waving first Ethiopian flag imagine the shock on their face when the prisoner of war broke out on his own and paraded first in their capital that they occupied using gas he also beat Germans many times and entered Berlin waving Ethiopian and British flag Google abdissa Aga is you don't the legend
Overrated->Holy Roman, Ottoman, and British
Underrated -> Seleucid, Ummayed, and Dutch
I totally agree. A few of those almost made the list!
How is the British Empire overrrated?
It’s not overrated per say, but it’s just talked about a lot. I feel like most “overrated” empires are pretty cool, but they just are already know about by everyone.
@@HistoryHouseProductions true, i mean, how can the British Empire be overrated when its empire literally was larger than the moon.
The dutch aren’t underrated right?....? Right...??
2:54
When you forget that you have beans from 2 years ago
Brazil once was called an empire, but never expanded much or did much thing...
But It was really big to the time
It did many things to its people, my favorite empire tbh.
If you consider it part of the Portuguese empire.
@@armorman3005 lol no
alguém br aqui?
love ur channel. combines my favorite things
memes n history
Underrated: Majapahit, Mughals, Song Dynasty, and Swedish Empire
Overrated: All the German Reichs, Habsburg Empire, and Qing Dynasty
France, America, England/Britain, Spain, Portugal, the Japanese, the Chinese, Mongols, Egyptian Empire
Qing is shit
@@guilhermehx7159 Actually, not really. They became kinda bad by the end of Kangxi's reign
mughals ? did u mean golden horde? how is it onderrated man. golden horde conquered so many territory but splitted so easly.
"Underrated: ...Swedish Empire"
Have you ever listened Sabaton!?!?! :OOO
My top 3 underrated empires
Abbasid Caliphate
Teotihuacan Empire
Moche Civilization
Holy roman empire
Arabian empire
Branden Manuel Teotihuacán was great, its sad that it was destroyed by the Toltecs. The mochicas were great too
@Aniq Iman i think that he is refering to the rashiddun khalifate
your content is awesome man, keep it up
Thank you so much! I appreciate you taking the time out of your day to write this!
That dirty swamp joke was a top kek quality meme. Liked and subscribed
I’m glad that someone got that.
The Bulgarian Empire (681 - 1396) is also very underrated. They had most of the Balkan peninsula under control for large periods of time in the middle ages and also won countless wars against the Byzantines.
The Ethiopian Empire was long before Yekuno Amlak, Ethiopia did invade Egypt and managed to win and defend Copts living in Egypt.
Right. Ethiopia existed before him, but he started the Solomonic Dynasty.
Style & Substance.. solid writing, bravo!
Thanks!
Turkic khaganate aka Gokturk empire should’ve been on this list. They conquered 1/3 of Asia and literally nobody knows about them.
Maybe I’ll do a part two some day!
they just conquered the unhabited plains in central asia, a huge Land without cities and any trace of living except nomads
Persian patriot nah, that’s what they told u at school not the real history facts. Gokturks created a huge empire when they were slaves in rouran empire. After being established, The khaganate was seen as a prey, they were surrounded by powerful enemies and they managed to expand their lands and became one of the greatest empires in its era. They had a huge impact in both turkic and world history.
@@shahriarghasemianbamy1156 central africa? What are you high?
kareem hashimi
He means central asia.
Use your brain.
I like the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth, because is my favorite.
That shaky cam in the intro
Could you do a part II on this? I think this is a very intersting episode which could extend to multiple
Maybe some day!
This channel is underated
The empire that I built in my back yard when I was a kid that included a stick fort and the conquest of a part of my neighbors backyard is definitely the most underrated empire in history. It doesn’t even have a page in the history books. Long live the Tominian Empire! (2004-05) Lol
The most underrated empire is Chola empire .
Who thinks the same hit like
You're channel is the most underrated history channel :)
Haha! Thank you so much!
Always the best answer when someone says they need more love. "No you don't"
"Most underrated empires"
You mean some of the most famous empires in history?
the Persian empire barely gets any space in textbooks
Lmao Byzantine empire being underrated is the best joke
rayan razavi
History exists beyond text books.
This should really be about The Latin Empire, The Medieval Danish Empire, and The Umayyads
Who was the Latin Empire? Are you refering to the Catholic leaders that briefly ruled Constantinople? They're largely unkown but they weren't much of an empire, having little power beyond the areas surrounding Constantinople and Thrace, and most of the previous wealth and power of Byzantium was shattered when they were invaded by the Crusaders, so they're not underrated so much as obscure since they're rated about as highly as they deserve.
The Latin Empire was a joke from the start. Now The Emire of Nicaea, that did some interesting things, did succeeded in it's goals (resorecting the "Bizantyne" Empire) and they had a really raugh start.
Impressive stuff
Bro I love ur intro and outro music
Thank you!
Yeah your channel is awesome
aight imma just make predictions on what those empires are from the thumbnail:
>Persian/Sarnid or however you spell it empire
>Abyssinia
>The Roman _Republic_
Close!
You should collaborate with Herzhog, you both need the growth.
Nothing comes up when I search for “herzhog”
@@HistoryHouseProductions sorry wrong spelling it's herrzog
Jake Ferris Hmmm. I still can’t find anything. Maybe you could put a link to the channel?
@@HistoryHouseProductions it autocorrects to herzzog but if you click search instead for herrzog it should come up
Ahhh. Okay. I finally found him!
I’m so mad I just found this channel. I really like some comedy with my history.
Haha! Glad we agree!
Subbed good video bro
Thanks!
History House Productions ya dude just watched a ton of your videos you should do a video on Persia... the only empire not built on slavery and how Cyrus the great created the first chapter of human rights. Also keep up the comedy I laugh literally out loud at all your jokes! I forget the video but moving jimmy to the trash folder had me ROFL
Byzatine Empire was just Rome, and many nations were named for there capital like Rome, Andorra, Vatican, San Marino, Monaco, Luxembourg, Tunisia, Algeria, etc.
Right. The Byzantines always called their capitol Constantinople though.
@@HistoryHouseProductions well, Constantinople was built on top of the ancient Greek city of Byzantium, so there's that.
It's only named that way because of Constantine the Great.
They CALLED IT NOVA ROMA AND NOVA JERUSALEM
@@user-jg5du6wl1k Nova jerusalem was a weird one tbh
I think the Mughal Empire is underrated
@Aniq Iman The Marathas conquered delhi. The one who have the last laugh counts. And marathas conquered the Mughals. And maharashtra is economically the best state of India. Jai bhawani, jai shivaji, jai maharashtra 🚩🚩🚩
Already watched 5 times in a row
I love both of em, more so Byzantine glad someone sees they’re underrated.
Empire of Trebizond
That would’ve been a good one.
Principality of Theodoro.
EU4 FTW
Not really an empire except for the fact that they had the Imperial title. Lol
Ironic that this channel is also underrated.
He talks with a rythym, it’s so weird and i love it
My fav channel
Thank you!
Watches video on underrated empires. Doesnt see poland-lithuania.
Need to hussar intensifies
Spanish empire cries on the back of the class*
Ita always overlooked in comparison to the Brittish one
Because the British Empire is cooler.
@@ThatRatBastard sorry I dont speak pirate
@@koppunch Okay Spaniard
@@ThatRatBastard Ok pirate
El imperio de servantes si hubiera existido hasta el congreso de Viena
El reinó unido y Francia no hubieran sido más grande de la mitad lo que fueron en la realidad
Yo that Italian military joke got me
The Achaemenid Empire(and Persian empires in general) is just so underrated. Most history textbooks don't even give them a paragraph, just a small snippet when they fought the greeks.
curtis wong In what I've had you got a sizeable snippit, and anyone who is interested in history probably knows about it anyways.
1: The Byzantine empire WAS the Roman state, idk why people cant understand this
2: The term 'Byzantine' isnt from "Constantinople" but its older name "Byzantion/Vyzantiou".
I literally said both of those things in the video.
@@HistoryHouseProductionsyou said the term came from "Constantinople" not "Byzantion".
you said the 'Byzantine Empire' was some kind of relative or something (in relation to the Roman empire).
I said that it came from the OLD name of Constantinople (which would be Byzantium). I used a stepchild analogy for the Roman-Byzantine relation which I thought was fairly clear, but maybe I could’ve worded it better.
I just rewatched and I see what you mean lol, it sounds like you are saying 'Constantinople' is the old name, oof.
OH COOL IS HE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE ZULU EMPIRE, SIKH EMPIRE, HITTITE EMPIRE, OR THE MUGHAL EMPIRE?
History House Productions: Here's some empires everyone already heard of!
Zulus are overrated
@@ruvenzub Zulus are underrated wtf you talking about. People straight up dismiss them when Shaka literally advanced warfare in South Africa (not just for the Zulus but all natives) by around 400 years when you compare it to Europe during its tribal to settled phase. Pre-Shaka their wars were dumb shit tribal skirmishes where both sides line up and just hurl insults and spears at one another until champions step forward and duel before the 2 disorganized mobs until one side won enough duels and they all went home. Or they were just failed attempts at cattle-rustling where a gang of like 17 guys gets beat down by a small village for trying to jack their shit. After Shaka they were organizing units with centurion equivalents of 100-man units, utilized double envelopment tactics, achieved total war readiness, and had unreal logistics that allowed them to march 40-50 miles a day on foot. They turned semi-nomadic hut dwellers into an urban people with permanent settlements. They permanently changed the demographics of South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to this very day when Mzilikazi rebelled and took his army north into that region and copied Shaka's successes. They took a clan-based tribal society and developed a primitive version of feudalism with their sub-king system. These are incredibly underrated advancements that happened so rapidly. If in some alternate reality where colonialism never happened this could have been the African Rome or Persia, albeit with a much shittier material culture due to the fact that Africa's geography is just really unforgiving.
@@SilverTemplar This is true, and you have a good point. But, when I say they are overrated I mean that they are covered very frequently and are well known by most people, or at least they've heard of them. They are overrated when compared to other African Empires. Ask a random person about Mali or Songhai. They probably never heard of them.
@@ruvenzub The Mali are probably just as, if not more famous than the Zulus. Songhai are definitely underrated too though.
@@SilverTemplar Well, then. We have come to an agreement.
Also the Persian Empire invented Human rights. Nice and Bright future for Persia
(1979)
I’d say that the Gupta empire in India was pretty underrated. They discovered the concept of 0, vaccines, the Fibonacci sequence, Pascal’s triangle, the number system we use today, national parks, animal preserves, fair laws (they didn’t use torture or the death penalty), and not to mention they had great infrastructure (even better than modern India), and they had free healthcare and medicine for the average citizen.
I can’t tell if you are wearing a kilt or just pants.
JohnnyDaPrankstaGangsta Just pants. :)
The Byzantine Empire is really the Roman Empire, just greek. Literally, it’s just the western part fell and the eastern part stayed around.
Yep! That’s right!
Greeks had important role in the realm but I would not call it a greek empire. It is more like multinational empire.
The Ottoman Empire is really the Byzantine Empire, just Muslim
નીલ દેસાઇ That’s kinda a stretch.
@@ndesi62 Real dumb comparison.
One is the literally half of the roman empire (that was christianized at the time, by the way.) and the other is just foreign invaders.
Underrated youtube channel
Mauryan empire is so underrated that even this video under rates it
It literally had 1/3rd of the world's total population
0:59 well actually Constantinople was originally called Byzantium
That’s what I said. XD
The ottomans aren’t underrated when I was in school I was taught about them
Omer Soylu same might be the best reason I converted to Islam
Well im a turk living in germany and they tought us nothing about it.Even when we had 1.World War in History class,they didnt tought us that the Ottomans even existed.
🤣 that scene with the dimands a little fishy but since the shirt said gang gang it was funny
The Bulgarian empire is really underrated. For one they fought many wars against the East Roman Empire and won despite being outnumbered, even capturing the Basileus in battle once and using his skull as a drinking cup. They became the first nation ever to force the Byzantines to recognise the title of Tsar. Second, the "Cyrilic" alphabet was paid for by Simeon the great of Bulgaria and made by a Bulgarian - saint Clement of Ohrid. Not only that but tsar Simeon started a great cultural campaign to promote the Bulgarian culture and alphabet, that we now know as the Cyrilic alphabet, which is not what it was called before as it was simply known as the Bulgarian alphabet back then. And on top of all of that, the Second Bulgarian Empire was able to capture Baldwin of the Latin Empire himself and he actually died in the capital of Bulgaria in what we now know as Baldwin's tower.
Impressive
With the exception of Ethiopia both of the empires are overrated af
Edgy boi
I see that Europe "thanking" a nation that defended them from islamic invasion is a running theme in history
*partitions of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth*
Haha gotta love it
Great video, but what was the bread reference?
It’s just a totally outlandish comparison to mock my frequent use of analogies. :)
Greek empires always had underrated empires such as Byzantine empire and Macedonian empire etc
3 underrated empires: the first one literally The Roman Empire.
Title:Underrated Empires
Video:Byzantines
you trippin bro? Its extremely popular, especially among White fuckbois.
Edit 1:lmao, Persia?
Edit 2:Finally, something really underrated.
It’s popular among history nerds like us, but most random people don’t know what it is.
So nostalgic, i rember being at the fall of constantinople, it was trajic, constantin V, mon oncle at the 6.37282×10¹²⁵⁷ degree died, f
Im _half_ italian and _half_ argentinian...
I currently live in Argentina
Μore like your channel is totally underrated
Thank you!
Man is a Byzantine fanboy and I am all here for it
Mughal Empire is the most underrated empire in the history.The most powerful and richest Emprie in the world at 16th and 17th century. The richest Muslim Empire in the all time . Mughals are more powerful and richest than Ottomans.But people only talk about Ottomans
Ethiopia had no tanks, no airplanes, no flamethrowers, and no poison gas, and was not much of a match for Italy. British South African forces threw the Italians out in 1941, and Addis Ababa became the first capital city to be liberated from the Axis. Nothing against Ethiopia, but this thing about Ethiopia soundly defeating Italy is based on anti-Italian stereotypes that were started at least as early as the Spanish Civil War and they stubbornly persist today.
No, no, the Ethiopians beat the Italians in the FIRST war they fought against them in the late 1800s. They lost the 1936 one for sure.
@@HistoryHouseProductions Oh, okay. Got it. Thanks.
I really dig your content and style man. I do think your timing and some joke content needs to be worked on, but overall, keep up the great work man. I hope this comment helps you out in your RUclips journey!
Thank you! I try to get better with every video!
Very epic
Byzantine Empire, is actually my favorite empire ever made
14/53, good one
Man that 1453 was way too soon. Make me cry every time.
You can make a case for Ethiopia for being underrated, but the others are well known and rated highly amongst a lot of people. It´s just silly to think the Byzantine and Persian empires are not appreciated, they are.
But also dude remember me when you blow up like every other history channel, I'm here at 9.5k subs
you should know about rashidun caliphate its my fav
Tonga Empire is also an underrated empire. They ruled a large portion of the pacific islands not much land but a huge amount of territory. They even ruled my country Samoa for over 300 years until we basically did the Red wedding thing from GOT got them drunk and tricked them into thinking we were doing an awesome dance with weapons but then they were surprised when got their head smashed in.
Hahaha! That's pretty interesting!
I love the Achaemenids they were dope.
Srivijaya majapahit and mallaca empire : crying in the background
Considering everyone dies from dysentery up until a few centuries ago, whenever I have a leader in Europa Universalis, he lives to like 85.