The History of the Romans: Every Year

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  • Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
  • See the entire history and progression of Roman civilization from the city-state Kingdom all the way to the last Byzantine successor state.
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Комментарии • 11 тыс.

  • @EmperorTigerstar
    @EmperorTigerstar  6 лет назад +3501

    Thanks for over 1 million views everyone! :D

    • @jules6856
      @jules6856 6 лет назад +20

      EmperorTigerstar Thanks for making the video!

    • @Creezek
      @Creezek 6 лет назад +5

      But not subs

    • @drosophyllum8418
      @drosophyllum8418 6 лет назад +5

      Can you ask google to stop showing adds advocating liberal/feminist propoganda?

    • @drosophyllum8418
      @drosophyllum8418 6 лет назад

      It makes you channel look bad.

    • @drosophyllum8418
      @drosophyllum8418 6 лет назад

      Companies wont want to buy adds on your channel and your videos will get demonatized or age restricted.

  • @hellenicboi14
    @hellenicboi14 5 лет назад +8684

    Roman Kingdom: The pilot
    Roman Republic: The critically acclaimed prequel
    Roman empire: The award winning series
    Byzantine empire: The tearjerking finale
    Ottoman empire: Villain's spin-off series
    HRE: The non-canon comic continuation
    Russian empire: Good fan-movie
    Kingdom of Italy: Teaser for the reboot
    Fascist Italy: Studio's last attempt at a cash-grab that failed horribly

    • @angusfangus1136
      @angusfangus1136 5 лет назад +884

      HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE : not Holy , not Roman , not Empire .

    • @johnnystander3142
      @johnnystander3142 5 лет назад +313

      @@iplyrunescape305 they are still working on the reboot

    • @LeqoO-Ugurcan
      @LeqoO-Ugurcan 4 года назад +98

      Fatih Sultan Mehmet Han
      1453 hahaha

    • @Wm7forthewin
      @Wm7forthewin 4 года назад +312

      Republic of Turkey: Villians Spin off reboot

    • @firstlast-pq1tx
      @firstlast-pq1tx 4 года назад +215

      So the ottoman empire is like the joker of the batman series

  • @JesseBusman1996
    @JesseBusman1996 4 года назад +4611

    One emperor ruling all the way from Scotland to Iraq. Pretty amazing

    • @dreamer2260
      @dreamer2260 4 года назад +213

      @Jesse Busman It defies belief really. Never ceases to astound me.

    • @bn56would
      @bn56would 4 года назад +405

      @@dreamer2260 Mongols had one emperor rule all the territory from the Okhotsk Sea/Korea all the way to Wallachia. More impressive if you ask me.

    • @dreamer2260
      @dreamer2260 4 года назад +1022

      @@bn56would Yes that is also unbelievably impressive. However, their longevity, prosperity and stability was not as great as the Roman Empire, and I would contend that the Roman Empire successfully knitted together a far more culturally, religiously and ethnically diverse empire than the Mongols did.

    • @bn56would
      @bn56would 4 года назад +135

      Matthew Ambrose Fair enough.

    • @millardfillmore2869
      @millardfillmore2869 4 года назад +129

      Then again the Ummayads stretched from northern India to Spain, and Mongols stretched from Korea to Poland.

  • @hatchmaster_5745
    @hatchmaster_5745 3 года назад +2513

    "Rome wasn't built in a day." Apparently it took 100 years before they became anything more than a city

    • @chocolate6315
      @chocolate6315 3 года назад +33

      @বাঙালী গেমার ottoman empire was much stronger than romans ..ottoman started to conquer in a short time and reigned for a longtime with huge lands

    • @chocolate6315
      @chocolate6315 3 года назад +5

      @বাঙালী গেমার sadly yes

    • @brandonbonas2761
      @brandonbonas2761 3 года назад +357

      @@chocolate6315 u do know rome held its empire longer then the entire ottoman existence right? Then also add in the fact that the byzantines were in Decline and were already on their last legs. Conquering them wasn't that impressive and even with all that the Ottomans struggled and almost lost the entire siege.

    • @luxifer8858
      @luxifer8858 3 года назад +158

      @@emreinan7749 the Roman state lasted from 753 BC. to 1453, for a total of 2,206 years.

    • @luxifer8858
      @luxifer8858 3 года назад +1

      @@emreinan7749 So I misunderstood me no problem d:

  • @davyjones6614
    @davyjones6614 4 года назад +3596

    Nobody:
    Mussolini’s every night dream:

    • @hellenicboi14
      @hellenicboi14 4 года назад +161

      This is what Mussolini touched himself at night to.

    • @daniele5349
      @daniele5349 4 года назад +60

      Mussolini was very good

    • @lemisanthrope8153
      @lemisanthrope8153 4 года назад +22

      crashverde 1 not at all

    • @toast2300
      @toast2300 4 года назад +78

      @@lemisanthrope8153 you're just weird then

    • @jamesxm4240
      @jamesxm4240 4 года назад +4

      Yyyy U gay It aint easy taking over Nations to Form something especially with a weak millitary back when Mussolini was in charge

  • @Dustin9933
    @Dustin9933 8 лет назад +5494

    I think it is simply amazing that the Roman Empire managed to last 2203 years.

    • @kaiseramadeus233
      @kaiseramadeus233 8 лет назад +137

      But it broke up into two

    • @marvelfannumber1
      @marvelfannumber1 8 лет назад +510

      +Kaiser Amadeus
      Uhm, no it didn't.

    • @kaiseramadeus233
      @kaiseramadeus233 8 лет назад +195

      marvelfannumber1 You never heard of the Byzantine Empire?

    • @kaiseramadeus233
      @kaiseramadeus233 8 лет назад +57

      4:48

    • @marvelfannumber1
      @marvelfannumber1 8 лет назад +1558

      Kaiser Amadeus
      The terms Western Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire are historiographical terms. The empire never "broke in two", in fact there weren't even 2 empires. It was one empire with 2 courts. It was always the same Roman Empire until 1453 (although some could argue it ended in 1204).
      Modern historians use these terms to differentiate between the two courts, but nobody living at the time was under the illusion that there were two empires.
      The fact that even professional historians get this wrong frustrates me greatly.

  • @sapphmapper9388
    @sapphmapper9388 5 лет назад +290

    The Medieval Ages began with the fall of Rome
    And they ended with the fall of Rome
    A great classical age finally ending with its fall
    And yet a new one beginning in its wake
    With their dying breath, the Romans planted the seed that would become the Renaissance
    Creating the modern world of today

    • @cameratab.m.5894
      @cameratab.m.5894 4 года назад +2

      Say thanks to italy before force us to austerity europeans laws...

    • @santigamerprogamer6493
      @santigamerprogamer6493 2 года назад

      @@cameratab.m.5894 Italy is a Germanic-descendent Country that has nothing to do with the Romans. They just saw that the Franks latinazed and then they did the same.

    • @vve2059
      @vve2059 2 года назад +1

      Nice you didnt used German in a sentence

  • @tescomealdeals4613
    @tescomealdeals4613 2 года назад +494

    I like how Rome started (according to legend) as Aeneas trying to find a place to build a new Troy that would one day defeat the Greeks, only for his new Troy to finally fall right next to where the original was a few millennia later, it came full circle almost as though it was fate. Which was interestingly a heavy theme in the story of Aeneas.

    • @conangaming2156
      @conangaming2156 2 года назад +69

      so I wasn’t the only one with that thought. Yeah, Constantinople is only like a couple days walk away from Troy, funny, 2 days away yet simultaneously over 2000 years apart.

    • @mattarellopazzosgravato9041
      @mattarellopazzosgravato9041 2 года назад +3

      Well thats a legend not reality

    • @conangaming2156
      @conangaming2156 2 года назад +34

      There is some archeological and linguistic evidence to point to it being based in reality, atleast to a certain extent.

    • @iDeathMaximuMII
      @iDeathMaximuMII 2 года назад +26

      @@mattarellopazzosgravato9041 There's a few excavation sites that can be traced back around that time. Same with Romulus's Foundation of Rome. It may mostly be fictional stories, but something definitely happened

    • @mattarellopazzosgravato9041
      @mattarellopazzosgravato9041 2 года назад +1

      @@iDeathMaximuMII yeah but most likely not a greek

  • @baswdc2165
    @baswdc2165 4 года назад +1473

    When your empire lasted so long even counted in 3 years per second the vid still lasts 10 minutes

    • @josephpe90
      @josephpe90 4 года назад +12

      Fifth Carrier Division Zuikaku-chan SPQR

    • @narayasuiryoku1397
      @narayasuiryoku1397 4 года назад +9

      A 10 minute video. Coincidence ? I don’t think so.

    • @legrandboche712
      @legrandboche712 4 года назад +50

      Not even counting the first 200 years

    • @miamidolphinsfan
      @miamidolphinsfan 4 года назад +3

      that's the way I watch all of tigerstar's vids in 25% speed

    • @qtulhoo
      @qtulhoo 4 года назад

      @@narayasuiryoku1397 Coincidence? Definitely! This is from 2016.

  • @remen_emperor
    @remen_emperor 3 года назад +401

    I always thought that Byzantium just kind of struggled until fading into history not long after real Rome fell. It was honestly amazing to see that they not only stuck around for a long time, not only that they kept at least a respectable amount of land for the majority of their existence, but also re-conquered the majority of the Mediterranean Sea all over again
    Honestly, I may respect Byzantium more than the Roman Empire. Rome conquered, but Byzantium fought against a changing and advancing world

    • @actin9294
      @actin9294 2 года назад +60

      Their quest to reconquer the whole Mediterranean was, in hindsight, a terrible idea that ultimately doomed Byzantines for the long-term decline and eventual fall.

    • @iDeathMaximuMII
      @iDeathMaximuMII 2 года назад +51

      They’re the same Empire

    • @remen_emperor
      @remen_emperor 2 года назад +37

      @@iDeathMaximuMII They are, but we view them as different nowadays. Besides, one trended to grab for new territory (and host a new revolt), whereas the other had more of territory stagnation and attempts to reclaim lost legacy

    • @dolphingoreeaccount7395
      @dolphingoreeaccount7395 2 года назад +11

      Byzantium had that big resurgence under Justinian, and then several smaller bursts of power where they still managed to take over most of the eastern med.

    • @Queen_Miku
      @Queen_Miku Год назад +4

      East rome was always able to push back, heck even the ottomans had a hard time taking constantinople in 1453

  • @polandballhistorian8537
    @polandballhistorian8537 5 лет назад +1306

    *_How did the Roman Kingdom end?_* When Brutus killed the person in charge
    *_How did the Roman Republic end?_* When Brutus killed the person in charge
    *_How did the Roman Empire end?_* When Turkish Huns kept invading
    *_How did the eastern Roman Empire end?_* When Turkish Ottomans kept invading
    *_Who was the first ruler of Rome?_* Romulus
    *_Who was the first emperor of Rome?_* Augustus
    *_Who was the last emperor/ruler of Rome?_* Romulus Augustus
    *_Who founded the eastern capital?_* Constantine
    *_Who lost the eastern capital?_* Constantine
    *_What was the eastern capital?_* Constantinople
    *_When did ancient times end?_* When the Roman Empire fell
    *_When did medieval times end?_* When the Roman Empire fell
    *_When was Rome founded?_* April of 753 BCE
    *_When did Rome lose the city of Rome for the second time?_* 753 CE
    *_When did Rome finally end?_* April of 1453 CE
    (Assuming the Byzantine Empire was the direct descendant of the Roman Empire, which it was)

    • @mundogameplay1341
      @mundogameplay1341 5 лет назад +120

      Its a funny thing Augustus founded the Roman Empire and Romulus Augustus was the last emperor of Rome.
      Same thing for the East,We can considerate Constantinus the Great the First emperor of the east because he translate the Capital to Byzantium.And in 1453 in the end of Roman Empire the last emperor was Constantinus XI .

    • @patrickchewning6629
      @patrickchewning6629 5 лет назад +48

      The Byzantine Empire ended on my Birthday

    • @metatron6262
      @metatron6262 5 лет назад +42

      Polandball Historian No one ever mentions poor Trebizond.

    • @user-dv6ww3zr7w
      @user-dv6ww3zr7w 5 лет назад +29

      Turks doesn't invade, Turks conquer.

    • @polandballhistorian8537
      @polandballhistorian8537 5 лет назад +66

      no it wasnt

  • @LEFT4BASS
    @LEFT4BASS 4 года назад +1821

    Weird that London and Baghdad were briefly part of the same country.

    • @FirstnameLastname-py3bc
      @FirstnameLastname-py3bc 4 года назад +94

      Well, if Manchuria and Belgrad(insert eastern european city / country) were part of the same empire ...

    • @FirstnameLastname-py3bc
      @FirstnameLastname-py3bc 4 года назад +25

      Or - Berlin and some whatever's on the very east of Russia were part of the same empire

    • @ezrabarker5173
      @ezrabarker5173 4 года назад +116

      And London and Melbourne and Hong Kong, Cape Town, Vancouver

    • @HowToKillAliens
      @HowToKillAliens 4 года назад +45

      Baghdad didn't exist back then

    • @LEFT4BASS
      @LEFT4BASS 4 года назад +13

      I didn’t know. Founded in 765.

  • @TheSpaniard
    @TheSpaniard Год назад +55

    Imagine being a part of a political entity that spanned a majority of written human history. Absolutely legendary.

  • @equalopportunityoffender1816
    @equalopportunityoffender1816 5 лет назад +1747

    Byzantine Empire in 1204: *exists*
    Crusaders: It's free real estate

    • @plotniski2822
      @plotniski2822 5 лет назад +224

      What do you do after losing Jerusalem
      A: reconquer it
      B: give up
      C: do something stupid like idk destroy Byzantium and let the Muslims to Europe

    • @r.a1301
      @r.a1301 5 лет назад +58

      @@plotniski2822 short term it was good for the crusaders that got rich from sacking it. Long term the Christian world would suffer thanks to it

    • @seamuspink9098
      @seamuspink9098 5 лет назад +60

      Ironic, instead of figthing the muslims they ended up debilitating each othen and nearly destroying western culture

    • @erwinrommel6561
      @erwinrommel6561 5 лет назад +9

      @Denis Diderot and they said muslims were evil in that time Vl

    • @LetsGoGetThem
      @LetsGoGetThem 5 лет назад +27

      @@erwinrommel6561 Without the Seljuk Turks (Muslims attacking Christian territory) there wouldn't be crusades in the first place, so yeah. Dunno why the modern narrative is what it is on this, it's strange and wrong.

  • @mooiemooface1550
    @mooiemooface1550 5 лет назад +2947

    Mediterranean: How much territory would you like?
    Rome: *Y E S*

  • @EmperorTigerstar
    @EmperorTigerstar  8 лет назад +753

    Yes the video is pretty long, isn't it? Next week will have two videos. Both of which are directly related.

    • @zetrolled8466
      @zetrolled8466 8 лет назад +21

      You never fail to interest, did you know that?

    • @Tarret
      @Tarret 8 лет назад +8

      Oh! Great Video

    • @sarafarron7844
      @sarafarron7844 8 лет назад

      Happy New Year! From Sibiria with love!

    • @pointbreak4490
      @pointbreak4490 8 лет назад

      +EmperorTigerstar Where do you get the data for all of these??

    • @suber36g
      @suber36g 8 лет назад +1

      MOAR

  • @OllieBye
    @OllieBye 8 лет назад +2030

    The detail on this is incredible, very well done!

  • @squidlad
    @squidlad 7 лет назад +464

    There isn't a single video on RUclips relating to the Byzantine empire which doesn't have a load of Greeks and Turks going absolutely apeshit at each other in the comments.

    • @unadin4583
      @unadin4583 7 лет назад +43

      Conor: It's not just videos about the Byzantine empire. It includes just about any video in which one of the two nations is mentioned.

    • @unadin4583
      @unadin4583 7 лет назад +10

      Conor: Tigerstar just posted a brand new video about the unifications of Germany and Italy. Guess what one of the first comment threads was about.

    • @squidlad
      @squidlad 7 лет назад +23

      Their endless feuding even extends to history that has absolutely nothing to do with them.

    • @banjiu10
      @banjiu10 7 лет назад +28

      This is human nature. People love to take side and have feud. There are also China-Japan, US-Russia, India-Pakistan, Israel-Palestine, ....

    • @yuhyuh5674
      @yuhyuh5674 6 лет назад +7

      Kevin M nah

  • @mythicalrp5642
    @mythicalrp5642 3 года назад +86

    No empire in history would be as graceful, glorious, and significant as the Roman empire. You just can't compare it to any other empire in its time especially with its lasting significance all over the world.

    • @dancing46
      @dancing46 2 года назад +5

      Ottoman sultan> roma and greek history

    • @joshuagroenewald6198
      @joshuagroenewald6198 2 года назад +18

      @@dancing46 boring.

    • @calibvr
      @calibvr 2 года назад +17

      @@dancing46ottomans are not interesting

    • @CCP-Dissident
      @CCP-Dissident 2 года назад +11

      Give credit to ancient egypt and mesopotamia, they invented many things that roman civilization would use

    • @lordjaec
      @lordjaec 2 года назад +12

      @@dancing46 Greek and roman history are much more vast and interesting than ottoman history. And that's just facts, the roman empire lasted for 2 millennials while the ottoman lasted for at least 8 centuries. Don't get me wrong i love turkish culture but when compared to italians/greeks it is just inferior

  • @hmmm9658
    @hmmm9658 4 года назад +965

    Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened 😌

  • @50shekels
    @50shekels 4 года назад +5155

    Imagine if we sat Caesar down and had him watch this

    • @unadin4583
      @unadin4583 4 года назад +291

      You mean Julius Caesar, correct?

    • @50shekels
      @50shekels 4 года назад +1362

      @@unadin4583 No I mean Gaius Julius Caesar.

    • @unadin4583
      @unadin4583 4 года назад +367

      @@50shekels I think he would be pleased.

    • @zeroplague
      @zeroplague 4 года назад +499

      Rather see Augustus reaction.

    • @porygonyt8014
      @porygonyt8014 4 года назад +330

      @@zeroplague His reaction after Teutoburg massacre x10

  • @jonathan.171
    @jonathan.171 4 года назад +91

    I'm not crying, it's just that sometimes when i get sad, water comes out of my eyes!

    • @gamer228r
      @gamer228r 3 года назад +7

      oversimplified

    • @jasontodd5356
      @jasontodd5356 3 года назад

      Are you dumb

    • @whattheh6455
      @whattheh6455 3 года назад +7

      @@jasontodd5356 no you’re dumb

    • @sakitaru64ツ
      @sakitaru64ツ 3 года назад +9

      This enraged his father, who punished him severely

    • @HogBurger
      @HogBurger 3 года назад +4

      @@jasontodd5356 bringing up off topic things is not proof of a person being dumb, though randomly calling someone dumb because of a reference is dumb

  • @alexww180
    @alexww180 7 лет назад +303

    03:25 Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

    • @based_kumanovar4799
      @based_kumanovar4799 6 лет назад +1

      @Русский Парень At it's Height

    • @r.a1301
      @r.a1301 6 лет назад

      Don’t smile because it’s over, cry because it happened

    • @dave-xp9qk
      @dave-xp9qk 5 лет назад +1

      Rom A because perpetually lingering on and whining about the past and it’s mistakes is a great way to live a productive and fun life!

  • @marto8044
    @marto8044 5 лет назад +1555

    The last part is hard to watch.
    It's always sad when empires die.

    • @gustavonaupacuchillo4416
      @gustavonaupacuchillo4416 5 лет назад +29

      True

    • @leiyaca
      @leiyaca 5 лет назад +235

      What makes it worse is that whereas most empires collapse quickly, the ERE gets gradually conquered over a millennia. It's watching them struggle to hang on but eventually being overcome little by little that makes it so depressing.

    • @nooyorcste
      @nooyorcste 5 лет назад +3

      etleyn lvz un n englsh

    • @oghuzkhan6136
      @oghuzkhan6136 5 лет назад +44

      Thats what happens bro. Empires borns, grows, weakens and in the end dies. You cant stop it

    • @constantiniasmith4231
      @constantiniasmith4231 5 лет назад +1

      Not HRE

  • @timothyprice3264
    @timothyprice3264 3 года назад +36

    Damn 116 AD was the time to be alive in Rome. The best year geographically wide and probably resource wise as well

    • @henrygustavekrausse7459
      @henrygustavekrausse7459 2 года назад +7

      I disagree, 145 B.C is the Year for me. The dangers of Carthage defeated, the learning of Greece incorporated. Most importantly, the Senate at its closest to the Roman people. My allegiance is to the Republic, to democracy!

    • @Pyxlean
      @Pyxlean Год назад +2

      @@henrygustavekrausse7459 I also love the Republic but it was closer to being an Oligarchy rather than a Democracy.

    • @henrygustavekrausse7459
      @henrygustavekrausse7459 Год назад +4

      @@PyxleanIt was an oligarchy but as far as the ancient period is concerned I gotta take what I can get.

    • @Pyxlean
      @Pyxlean Год назад +1

      @@henrygustavekrausse7459 Truly, the only country in Ancient times which was more Democratic than the Roman Republic was Athens

  • @greg1156
    @greg1156 5 лет назад +1197

    1:59 Back when Italy could actually invade Greece

    • @andreipop5805
      @andreipop5805 5 лет назад +21

      Ouch

    • @genji5675
      @genji5675 5 лет назад +2

      I dont k ow what happened

    • @AlexS-oj8qf
      @AlexS-oj8qf 5 лет назад +20

      *Romans

    • @christostheocharides4689
      @christostheocharides4689 5 лет назад +70

      @@AlexS-oj8qf The roman army had latin legeionaries of which were an italic tribe so he isn't wrong m8

    • @pantelisdalezios1086
      @pantelisdalezios1086 5 лет назад +21

      Hehehe i am greek but still no problem the ancient greeks were jerks and killed each others so Romans deserved to destroy them

  • @JcDizon
    @JcDizon 8 лет назад +2458

    Watching the final centuries of the Byzantine empire was pretty sad. It looked like they really struggled to keep holding their empire for years.
    Edit 4 years later: Wow I can't believe I got 2.3k likes here, looks like a new record for me, thanks everyone

    • @v.p.anderson4952
      @v.p.anderson4952 8 лет назад +278

      What do you mean "the Muslims never really made a lot of progress until the fourth crusade"? They had already conquered Egypt, Syria, Judea, North Africa, Sicily, and most of Anatolia by the fourth Crusade.

    • @andrewrendon7789
      @andrewrendon7789 8 лет назад +213

      Along with the Muslim invasions and the Crusades, we also have to take into account the Byzantine Emperors. Because, quite frankly, many were fucking incompetent. It is rather unfortunate that at many crucial moments in the Empire's history, they occurred during the reign of incapable emperors. For example, if the Emperor in 1071 had been more skilled as a general, the Seljuk victory at Manzikert may have been avoided (and the subsequent loss of Anatolia).

    • @v.p.anderson4952
      @v.p.anderson4952 8 лет назад +83

      Andrew Rendon Although Romanos IV was not a very good general it should be noted that half of his army left right before the battle. However I do agree with you. Especially during the 1180s-1204 area because the emperors at that time were too distracted by politics to stand against the crusaders.

    • @friattmoooo
      @friattmoooo 7 лет назад +11

      Exactly ... how sad..

    • @canerkoseler4172
      @canerkoseler4172 7 лет назад +29

      He exhausted the Byzantine military and financial capabilities which weakened their ability to fight against Persians. He reconquered most of the former territories but left a fragile and weak Empire to his successors.

  • @HQA0
    @HQA0 3 года назад +19

    6:35 nice bell sound effect when the Byzantine Empire loses the City of Rome for the last time.

  • @hardmeme5971
    @hardmeme5971 6 лет назад +2036

    Top ten saddest anime deaths

    • @laitilulu
      @laitilulu 6 лет назад +18

      1.

    • @btdpro752
      @btdpro752 6 лет назад +9

      STORM LORD Japan has a better education system then most of Europe and also has the 3rd largest economy.

    • @btdpro752
      @btdpro752 6 лет назад +2

      STORM LORD Well i apologize for not understanding your sarcasm.

    • @michalblasko8740
      @michalblasko8740 6 лет назад +5

      @@btdpro752 What has education and economy to do with anime ?

    • @btdpro752
      @btdpro752 6 лет назад +5

      @@michalblasko8740 Anime is communist propaganda

  • @Winzton4Lif3
    @Winzton4Lif3 Год назад +8

    The First Roman King was Romulus, The First Emperor was Augustus, the Last Roman Emperor of the West was Romulus Augustulus.
    Brutus Started the Rupublic Brutus Ended the Republic.
    Constantine founded Constantinople, the last Roman Emperor of the East was Constantine.

    • @larryschultz3139
      @larryschultz3139 Год назад +2

      The Franks started the Holy Roman Empire and Francis was it’s last Emperor!

    • @Winzton4Lif3
      @Winzton4Lif3 Год назад

      @@larryschultz3139 poetic indeed, but were they really Roman? 🤔🤔🤔

    • @larryschultz3139
      @larryschultz3139 Год назад +1

      @@Winzton4Lif3 I believe so. The argument for being a legitimate heir is compelling.

    • @Winzton4Lif3
      @Winzton4Lif3 Год назад

      @@larryschultz3139 ruclips.net/video/uo1X80xHVSk/видео.html

  • @equalopportunityoffender1816
    @equalopportunityoffender1816 5 лет назад +669

    3:25 Mussolini's wet dream

  • @zyanego3170
    @zyanego3170 4 года назад +34

    May this glorious Empire rest in peace

  • @peaceman679
    @peaceman679 8 лет назад +543

    It's painful to watch everything wither away because of EU4/CK2 flashbacks.

    • @literallyonevideo7118
      @literallyonevideo7118 8 лет назад +78

      France what are you doing here? No France NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

    • @nicholasarcarese1908
      @nicholasarcarese1908 8 лет назад +11

      +TheExplainerofallthethings. I was playing as Brunswick yesterday and France allied with the Ottomans. I'm all WTF?

    • @marnikwillems7840
      @marnikwillems7840 8 лет назад +29

      +Hornchief They historically also did it, though... Starting at the time of king Francis I and emperor Charles V.

    • @Prespanda
      @Prespanda 8 лет назад +4

      France always declares war on me in Victoria 2.

    • @Hadiros
      @Hadiros 8 лет назад +5

      Fucking France and Frankish Empire before it.

  • @a_l7515
    @a_l7515 5 лет назад +1151

    Romans leave Britain.
    Picts : “ thank god the Romans left. None of us has to die.”
    Vikings : hold my beer

    • @sonfiravun4988
      @sonfiravun4988 5 лет назад +88

      They faced Anglo Saxons before Vikings.

    • @a_l7515
      @a_l7515 5 лет назад +10

      Son Firavun Too bad for the Picts. RIP. Picts

    • @iapetusmccool
      @iapetusmccool 5 лет назад +10

      @@a_l7515 it was the Scots who did for the Picts. (At least according to the Scots own histories - I think there is some doubt about the accuracy of that now).

    • @RoyalFlush270
      @RoyalFlush270 4 года назад +4

      *mead

    • @pedrosabino8751
      @pedrosabino8751 4 года назад +2

      Picts-saxons-vikings

  • @EASYTIGER10
    @EASYTIGER10 4 года назад +336

    5:38 Fascinating how close they got to re-establishing the full East/West Empire. One of the great what ifs of history.

    • @wyattrox03
      @wyattrox03 4 года назад +93

      Could have done it if the plague hadn't happened and if the Franks hadn't been so powerful

    • @ea635
      @ea635 4 года назад +22

      Wyattrox 03 the Hre and Ere almost united at some point. It all gone because a wrong marriage.

    • @gungner6166
      @gungner6166 3 года назад +17

      @@wyattrox03 Interesting thing is "the Franks" had been under roman rule for over 500 years, why did they resist so much? wouldn't they see themselves as romans?

    • @likeaboss1059
      @likeaboss1059 3 года назад +17

      @@gungner6166 well with all large empires governing over multiple cultures it Dosent seem to work out. One of the reasons the East lived longer is a big thanks to Alexander already making “Hellenic” rule more familiar Just look at Europe today so many diffrent countries. Makes you wonder how long the u.s has left.

    • @gungner6166
      @gungner6166 3 года назад +4

      @@likeaboss1059 Yeah, really interesting. While you brought up the US, look at the civil war. After 80 years of existence there was already an southern identity

  • @simplyg4037
    @simplyg4037 3 года назад +65

    There are several Roman forts where I live in north east England, it’s amazing to know and see just how far they had reached with their empire!

  • @venturer9400
    @venturer9400 5 лет назад +109

    3:25 The Roman Empire on seven seas...

    • @marcozennaro0
      @marcozennaro0 2 года назад +1

      Its just the best empire ever existed

  • @condebyzantas1999
    @condebyzantas1999 5 лет назад +602

    10:10
    Despotate of Epirus: all my friends are death

  • @eakintunde84
    @eakintunde84 8 лет назад +1654

    Messenger: Your holiness, the Ottomans have captured Constantinople!
    Pope: That's terrible news!
    Messenger: What should we do?
    Pope: I know exactly what we should do!
    *adds Byzantine flag filter to facebook profile*
    #PRAYFORCONSTANTINOPLE #NOTALLMUSLIMS

    • @eakintunde84
      @eakintunde84 8 лет назад +41

      +Sarim Hassan I thought it was a good joke with a topical twist and yes empires do eventually come to an end.

    • @eakintunde84
      @eakintunde84 7 лет назад +83

      Ted Blue Nah, you shut up.

    • @eakintunde84
      @eakintunde84 7 лет назад +130

      Ted Blue Showing us the ways of the "religion of peace" I see. The fact you're more interested in world conquest than spiritual salvation shows us what's wrong with Islam.

    • @amrkurdi2964
      @amrkurdi2964 7 лет назад +32

      Manny Akintunde Don't judge a whole religion by what is said by one individual. you could say anything and slap to it "in the name of allah"... you should know better. :)

    • @eakintunde84
      @eakintunde84 7 лет назад +82

      Amr AlKurdi The problem is many Muslim think like Ted Blue and we see this reflected in how Muslims treat religious and ethnic minorities.

  • @autumnfox98
    @autumnfox98 8 лет назад +496

    R.I.P Byzantine Empire/ Eastern Roman Empire
    476-1453

  • @erikbelanger4551
    @erikbelanger4551 Год назад +13

    The amount of coastline impresses me the most. Truly the hardest thing to defend over that much time. The strongest empire ever.

    • @netaji-thebritishslayer
      @netaji-thebritishslayer Год назад

      Why coastline is hardest to defend ??

    • @S-T-DoubleO-P-I-D
      @S-T-DoubleO-P-I-D Год назад

      @@netaji-thebritishslayer esp along the Mediterranean, many invaders are going to come over on boats, so the invading country's most crucial objective is to conquer strongholds along the coast so they can then set-up camp and march infantry to the next strategic point. the invaders could be constantly attacking a coast line and attacking it aggressively due to its relative strategic importance making it an exhausting venture for the defending country/empire/state.

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 5 месяцев назад

      Once Rome became big enough, aside from the Persians in the east and the Germanics and Huns, they didn't have any credible threats at all, civil wars were really the main concern. The Atlantic coast didn't need to be defended.

  • @adumbrate5889
    @adumbrate5889 8 лет назад +580

    1453: One city challenge activated

    • @orangedude8013
      @orangedude8013 8 лет назад +25

      AI underestimate my power

    • @WoodenTableGaming
      @WoodenTableGaming 7 лет назад +96

      lol strong enough to conquer an already dead nation. well done.

    • @kenrudd6362
      @kenrudd6362 7 лет назад +7

      Wooden Table where there is truth in that almost all of the cards were stacked in the Ottomans favor and even then they struggled in taking Constantinople

    • @mangaz20
      @mangaz20 7 лет назад +6

      +Wooden Table Seljuks(a turkish khanete) conquered all anatolia exept Istanbul and the seljucks couldn't hold back against mogol invadings and they've divided lots of "beylik" (like karamanogullari,aydinogullari etc.) then osmanogullari (ottoman empire's name before becoming a empire) fought with that beyliks and byzantium at the 29 May 1453 II.Mehmed conquered Konstantinopolis after taking the city name it ''Kontantiniyye'' got it you fucking old headed crusade?

    • @WoodenTableGaming
      @WoodenTableGaming 7 лет назад +25

      Turks and their fantasys of history. It doesn't matter where the Osman beylik appeared from but it's largest advantage was the pretty much already dead Byzantines. As a state it was far more stable than the romans at the time and doing what turks did weakened them further by constantly raiding their territories. Byzantium died due to the fact that the latins were constantly seeking to take territory from them and the ottomans kept chipping away till they were nothing. Taking Constantinople was no great victory. The ottomans brought around 80 thousand soldiers and the byzantines by this point barely had a standing army.
      Also the reason why the Osman beylik was able to overcome the surrounding Beyliks is due to the byzantine territory they were able to eat up with ease.
      Keep in mind the Seljuks after Manzikert eventually lost the majority of their lands in anatolia only being within the platue of it due to the Komnenos Dynasty. If not for the Angeloi who destroy the empire through mis-management, the turks would've never overcame the Byzantines. The Sultanate of rum could've been fully eliminated if Manuel Komnenos didn't focus on europe and focused more on anatolia while the Sultanate of Rum was having major internal conflicts.

  • @Snoflakes_1
    @Snoflakes_1 4 года назад +477

    The empire with the most comebacks

    • @Kinsley40
      @Kinsley40 3 года назад +62

      @@chocolate6315 not really ottomans lasted 600 years and the romans lasted
      over 2000 years

    • @chiggen_wings5703
      @chiggen_wings5703 3 года назад +1

      @@Kinsley40 I thought the Ottomans lasted 800 years? (not debating over which one is better)

    • @emreinan7749
      @emreinan7749 3 года назад +6

      @@Kinsley40 when you realize that turkey just changed from a monarchy to a republic and even lives today! 🤯
      And compare the growth...
      Rome was "born" in 753 bc...it was till 390 bc a...city...and after 1300 ac...again...a city.
      Ottomans after 400 (1299-1683) years reached their highest expansion

    • @mohsenzarandi2868
      @mohsenzarandi2868 3 года назад +26

      @@emreinan7749 are you kidding???? You are really comarjng Roman And Persian Empires With Joking Ottoman Empire 😐😐🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @mohsenzarandi2868
      @mohsenzarandi2868 3 года назад +1

      That is Persian Empire 🇮🇷👑

  • @hexry1139
    @hexry1139 3 года назад +95

    I love how Byzantine Empire tried to recreate Rome, and almost did it in 5:37, many tried to reform the Roman Empire, but Byzantium was the closest to do it.

    • @vanmars5718
      @vanmars5718 3 года назад +57

      Byzantium was the Roman Empire. It just wanted to take the city of Rome back....

    • @kshitijbachhav5332
      @kshitijbachhav5332 3 года назад +6

      The crusades and the plague totally destroyed it otherwise it could have survived.

    • @jonapleseid7393
      @jonapleseid7393 3 года назад +35

      Dude. Byzantine empire didn’t exist. It’s just a historical term that’s used for it’s eastern half after the western half collapsed. If you asked any “Byzantine” citizen they would say they’re Romans. It WAS the Roman empire

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 2 года назад +6

      The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
      Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
      - Justinian I
      - Justin I
      - Anastasius I
      - Marcianus
      - Valentinian II
      - Gratian
      - Valens
      - Valentinian I
      - Jovian
      - Constantius II
      - Constantine the Great
      - Maximianus "Herculius
      - Diocletian
      - Probus
      - Aurelian
      - Quintillus
      - Claudius II "Gothicus
      - Hostilianus
      - Decius
      Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
      This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .

    • @calibvr
      @calibvr 2 года назад +1

      @@Universal.. who

  • @docpossum2460
    @docpossum2460 6 лет назад +623

    Should've included the Holy Roman Empire just for the laughs

    • @francesconesi7666
      @francesconesi7666 5 лет назад +50

      If Greeks can be Romans Germans and Turks can be too.

    • @hamidmalmo7664
      @hamidmalmo7664 5 лет назад +15

      Byzantium is already a joke.
      Pathetic byzantium did nothing but just struggle to take back italy and call themselves romans while living in greeece.
      The fanboys choosed the lamest kingdom of the time to be gay over it.

    • @JoseSilva-ht8es
      @JoseSilva-ht8es 5 лет назад +1

      @@hamidmalmo7664 ok I'm sorry

    • @BaconMaken
      @BaconMaken 5 лет назад +57

      @@hamidmalmo7664 The Byzantine Empire was the Roman Empire whether you like it or not. They split in half and West fell before East. The Holy Roman Empire on the other hand actually had nothing to do with the original Roman Empire whereas the Byzantines were a direct splinter off of it. Now you tell me who were the "fanboys" and who were the real deal.

    • @hamidmalmo7664
      @hamidmalmo7664 5 лет назад +3

      @@BaconMaken Oh.... now I get it.
      And they never called themselves the byzentaine empire nor were they adressed by that.
      So... Its a fact that the last roman settelement was taken by some highly militaristic people of anatolia. :((((((((

  • @gordonfreeman8109
    @gordonfreeman8109 6 лет назад +70

    Don't cry because it's over, be happy because it happened.

    • @JurzGarz
      @JurzGarz 5 лет назад

      Byzantine Ball: The fall of Rome was a necessary event in the creation of the modern world.

  • @narayasuiryoku1397
    @narayasuiryoku1397 4 года назад +292

    Girl: I can’t believe you didn’t cry on Titanic. Do you have any emotions ? Have you ever cried ?
    Boys:

    • @chocolate6315
      @chocolate6315 3 года назад +1

      Not me

    • @jimboonie9885
      @jimboonie9885 3 года назад +5

      @@chocolate6315 Ok ottopoop

    • @chocolate6315
      @chocolate6315 3 года назад

      @@jimboonie9885 stay mad cuz they ruled your country for 500 years 😘😘😘

    • @cmdrgarbage1895
      @cmdrgarbage1895 3 года назад +2

      @@chocolate6315 They ruled yours for a 1000

    • @headlander7119
      @headlander7119 3 года назад +1

      @@cmdrgarbage1895 Turks wasn't even in anatolia at the time period that the Roman Empire existed. So,your argument is invalid. Note: I'm not talking about the Byzantine period,so your argument is still invalid.

  • @AbelDimitriev
    @AbelDimitriev Год назад +5

    Rome started with Romulus and ended with Romulus, first was a king, last was an emperor. Eastern Rome started with Constantine and ended with Constantine. The greatest civilisation of humanity.

    • @Bilinmeyenbiri1236yxzuwjvwjci
      @Bilinmeyenbiri1236yxzuwjvwjci Год назад +2

      Rome was a barbaric and cruel society. That's why we eliminated it and brought justice and prosperity to Anatolia and the Balkans.

    • @baseplate7566
      @baseplate7566 Год назад +2

      @@Bilinmeyenbiri1236yxzuwjvwjci Ottomans bought no technological advancement in europe except pilliging and barbarian ideas tell me useful things ottomans bought to europe and not their dirty religion and pilliging cities

    • @Gizz101
      @Gizz101 Год назад +1

      ​@@Bilinmeyenbiri1236yxzuwjvwjciracist

  • @Turnet47
    @Turnet47 8 лет назад +296

    I have a question.
    Romanian language comes from latin right? But the territory of modern romania was never held for to much time as other places that dont speak today languages that come from latin.
    How did it happened

    • @EmperorTigerstar
      @EmperorTigerstar  8 лет назад +252

      Romanian is from Latin but is an Eastern Romance language, meaning it developed differently, hence why it's still related yet sounding different than Spanish or Italian. The Roman settlements were abandoned but many remained or the people remained, hence the lingering of the language.

    • @Turnet47
      @Turnet47 8 лет назад +51

      ***** Thanks

    • @norisszabo5207
      @norisszabo5207 8 лет назад +10

      +EmperorTigerstar Mihai Vinereanu prove that romanian language have 12% words from latin, and 70% geto-dacians words. Also a genetical study made by universities from UK , prove that people from our country have from 65% (in Bucharest and other big cities where people are mix with other nationalities) to 90% in mountains villages). Roman Emperor like Galerius and Regalianus were dacians and Justinian I was thracians. Dacians have over 244 statues made by romans like Arch of Constantine .micilevacante.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/roma2011333.jpg In Estonia or Latvia are villages who are named Moldova, Pădurea, in Poland , Czekh Republic and Slovakia live 1.5 milion romanians .

    • @infocus
      @infocus 8 лет назад +11

      +noledareminombreaunamaquina Romania has been surrounded by Slavic-speaking peoples for centuries, so it evolved differently than the western romance languages.

    • @Bayard1503
      @Bayard1503 8 лет назад +29

      +noledareminombreaunamaquina Well, the thing with the Roman Empire is that what you see in this video is what they controlled from a military point of view, so where they had castrums. But the Roman influence spanned a lot farther. In Romania's case they didn't have a province in the Southern part because, well, it was a huge forest, it was difficult to control, with no payback, unlike in the North where there were a lot of resources .... BUT they did built roads, defensive walled positions just in case, so the area was fully within their control. So when the Thracian population in Transylvania Latinized so did the tribes that were still free, in the East and South... and because there was a National unity feeling among the Thracian (Dacian) tribes the process continued even after the Roman legions left.
      One more thing contributed to it, unlike other Roman provinces on the border, Dacia (the Dacian provinces, there were always at least 3) wasn't abandoned in an orderly fashion. In most cases the army, the bureaucracy, some of the population had the time to move to safer areas within the Empire. By 250 the Goths had reached the Black Sea and started raiding the Eastern provinces, in 268 there was a huge invasion and Dacia was simply lost, the entire population trapped north of the Danube, unable to move for years. 5 years later Aurelian restored the situation within the empire, but never attempted to recover Dacia (he also died very fast).
      But in the end, it is kind of a mystery, how could a province that was held for only 150 years by the Roman Empire remain Latin, when so many others didn't (like Britain). Not to mention that all the migrations for the next 1000 years (ending with the Mongol invasion) came through (and pillaged) Romania. Probably the answer is the mountains, the Roman speaking population retreated to defensible areas, in the Carpathian mountains and survived. Because of all those migrations very few written documents remain from that period. (Hope this answers it, try to ignore the idiots that have answered before, they preach an alternative history and lies).

  • @flores332
    @flores332 4 года назад +145

    3:24 greatest extent, 117 AD, Rome
    5:36 greatest extent 556 AD, Byzantium

    • @flores332
      @flores332 4 года назад

      Year 556

    • @unadin4583
      @unadin4583 4 года назад

      @@flores332 Do you mean geographically? It doesn't look that way to me.

    • @flores332
      @flores332 4 года назад

      @@unadin4583 for the byzantines

    • @wyattrox03
      @wyattrox03 4 года назад +5

      5:37

    • @cosmiccruise8372
      @cosmiccruise8372 4 года назад +5

      Roman empire is when kids cry
      Byzatine empire is when Teens cry
      Despotate of epirus is when Adults cry

  • @aaronTGP_3756
    @aaronTGP_3756 2 года назад +8

    Mongols: Lasted for 100 years as a united empire, quickly collapsed as soon as crises came to it.
    Macedon: Collapsed into civil war immediately after Alexander's death; effectively lasted for 13 years.
    French Empire: died after Napoleon's head got too big and invaded Russia.
    Roman Empire: lasted for much longer than a 1000 years, persevered after many crises (e.g. 3rd century). Only through treachery and betrayal was it destroyed.

    • @apparentlyjeremy
      @apparentlyjeremy 2 года назад +1

      No other empire started steadily declining since the 3rd century and still live to see the 15th

    • @wilcowen6284
      @wilcowen6284 2 года назад +1

      Actually Frances empire never died

    • @aaronTGP_3756
      @aaronTGP_3756 2 года назад

      @@wilcowen6284 I'm talking Napoleon's Empire. It definitely collapsed. The Bonapartes no longer rule, the regime has changed, and it no longer has much power in Europe outside of its own borders.

    • @aaronTGP_3756
      @aaronTGP_3756 2 года назад

      @@apparentlyjeremy True... sort of. The Roman Empire never was in constant decline. It bounced back many times.
      1. The revival under Constantine
      2. Justinian's conquests
      3. The Macedonian renaissance
      4. The Komnenid restoration
      5. The early Palailogan restoration

  • @francescofavi3024
    @francescofavi3024 4 года назад +208

    5:14 : When the Western Roman Empire is a piece of France ....

    • @romainvicta8817
      @romainvicta8817 4 года назад +41

      It's crazy to think that syagrius could have overcome the franks and basically become roman gaul if they played their cards right, and replaced france in history. That would have been interesting.

    • @ismetsahin873
      @ismetsahin873 3 года назад +2

      Greeks and Turkey turks comes from the descendants of the Romans.
      Orthodox Romans = Greece
      Muslim Roma=Turk 😂😂
      The French destroy our empire

    • @rennor3498
      @rennor3498 3 года назад +15

      If Syagrius defeated Clovis at Soissons France would have never existed and Western Roman Empire might have survived in Gaul.

    • @HogBurger
      @HogBurger 3 года назад +1

      Let’s all just be glad history went the way it did.

    • @halalnoob5766
      @halalnoob5766 3 года назад +1

      So I know now who's in Paris...

  • @MrCouchmen
    @MrCouchmen 6 лет назад +192

    The year is 50 BC. Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely... One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders. And life is not easy for the Roman legionaries who garrrison the fortified camps of Totorum, Aquarium, Laudanum and Compendium.....

  • @mrkakbuhn5781
    @mrkakbuhn5781 4 года назад +70

    Seeing the western roman empire fall was sad, but at least it was a quik and painless death. Seeing the byzantine empire struggle for its life was truly heartbreaking. F

    • @fatihsultanmehmetc6481
      @fatihsultanmehmetc6481 3 года назад

      ;)

    • @lalaball_
      @lalaball_ 3 года назад +2

      @@fatihsultanmehmetc6481 uh

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 2 года назад +4

      The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
      Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
      - Justinian I
      - Justin I
      - Anastasius I
      - Marcianus
      - Valentinian II
      - Gratian
      - Valens
      - Valentinian I
      - Jovian
      - Constantius II
      - Constantine the Great
      - Maximianus "Herculius
      - Diocletian
      - Probus
      - Aurelian
      - Quintillus
      - Claudius II "Gothicus
      - Hostilianus
      - Decius
      Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
      This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) .

    • @TheIronChancellor
      @TheIronChancellor 2 года назад

      The Byzantine Empire was the Greek Roman empire

    • @CharlesHapsburg
      @CharlesHapsburg Год назад

      @@Universal..Albanians aren’t descended from Illyrian’s you clown. You’re nothing more than half Turkic scum who sold their daughters to the ottomans.

  • @Odoxon7522
    @Odoxon7522 5 лет назад +86

    Why is the roman empire so interesting? I love everything about the romans.

    • @Aethelhald
      @Aethelhald 4 года назад +55

      Probably because they were the first empire that had a government/language/culture that is recognizable to huge chunks of the world today. It still influences like 50% of the world today, even places it never conquered. Also because it lasted so long. Over 2,000 years, kinda. And finally I think it's because there's no way Rome should've been able to get as big and powerful as it did and last as long as it did. Think about it - Rome was a small city on a hill. It wasn't good farm land, it didn't have any gold or silver mines, it didn't have a large population. All it had was fish from the river Tiber. To its north, the Etruscans were far more civilized and advanced. To its south, the Greeks were far more civilized and advanced. Rome was conquered first by the Etruscans, but they came back. Then they were conquered by the Gauls under King Brennus, but they came back. Somehow they just kept winning.

    • @marvinsilverman4394
      @marvinsilverman4394 3 года назад +4

      I think Roman empire was like the first European Empire that introduced many things to Europe in that time

    • @Checkmate54321
      @Checkmate54321 3 года назад +1

      @@Aethelhald Do you think they were refugees from an actual Trojan war?

    • @Aethelhald
      @Aethelhald 3 года назад

      @@Checkmate54321 Some refugees from Troy may have escaped to Rome and settled there but I believe archaeological evidence shows it was inhabited much earlier than the Trojan War.

    • @ljss6805
      @ljss6805 3 года назад

      Everything? I mean, come on man. There were a lot of really effed up things about the Romans.

  • @TheGeneralGrievous19
    @TheGeneralGrievous19 4 года назад +16

    A remark - 8:38 during reign of Manuel I Komenos (1143-1180) Eastern-Roman Empire actually streched Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia in the West and have suzerenity over Cicilia and all south coast of Anatolia. #ByzantineEmpire 🇬🇷

  • @yermomLeslie
    @yermomLeslie 5 лет назад +1362

    Lasted for 2000 years, ended because door wasn't closed properly.

    • @mk-mz8ng
      @mk-mz8ng 5 лет назад +173

      Thats a bullshit story though.

    • @yoshifan0312
      @yoshifan0312 5 лет назад +40

      Lewin Tao Sadly it probably wouldn’t have lasted much longer if that hadn’t happened.

    • @authurmorgan2325
      @authurmorgan2325 5 лет назад +122

      @@mk-mz8ng says Hitler

    • @rico1346
      @rico1346 5 лет назад +43

      Excuse my arrogance but I have never heard of this before; so what is this "door wasn't closed properly" thing? I feel like it is a woosh comment but history can do essentially anything so... yeah

    • @shahirani4762
      @shahirani4762 5 лет назад +167

      Rico134 the reason the ottomans were able to take Constantinople was because a gate was left open after the byzantines finished fighting outside the walls due to some idiotz

  • @cloroxbleach9222
    @cloroxbleach9222 8 лет назад +211

    2:52 "Varus, Varus! Give me back my Legions!"

    • @lieutenantpliskin
      @lieutenantpliskin 8 лет назад +2

      a reference

    • @michaelklopper4749
      @michaelklopper4749 8 лет назад +33

      To the Battle of Teutenburg Forest, where Arminius destroyed Roman Legions, and prevented further Roman expedition into Germania

    • @v.p.anderson4952
      @v.p.anderson4952 8 лет назад +5

      I, Claudius, eh?

    • @blenzo8344
      @blenzo8344 7 лет назад +16

      "Oh Varus, Quintilus Varus! Give me back my Legions!" - Total War: Rome II. Emperor Augustus yelling that while standing in a forest with 20,000 dead Roman soldiers who fought to their death when ambushed against hundreds of thousands of barbaric hordes.

    • @colit5524
      @colit5524 6 лет назад

      Michael Klopper arminius was a roman general that betrayed his legions while they were peacefully marching to the jutland peninsula.Varus never leaded a legion before and after that event augustus sent germanicus that killed all the germans involved in that battle and their village. So i think it was more a mutilated victory than a victory

  • @Jacob-df5hr
    @Jacob-df5hr 8 месяцев назад +4

    Her: babe, what's wrong?
    Me, closing the video: I don't want to talk about it

  • @Enzo_0425
    @Enzo_0425 Год назад +14

    In the minute 2:59 Jesus Christ died

  • @charlesrogan331
    @charlesrogan331 5 лет назад +69

    It would be so cool to go back and see the Roman Empire in all its glory. Like around 220 AD.

    • @virgiljianu7166
      @virgiljianu7166 5 лет назад +4

      Guess we'll wait for a time machine to be made and then maybe we will

    • @daiIyclipz
      @daiIyclipz 4 года назад +3

      Now that would be a really stupid idea no offense

    • @virgiljianu7166
      @virgiljianu7166 4 года назад +2

      @@daiIyclipz Yeah,probably,but you know,it would be just for research purposes,nothing more

    • @Aethelhald
      @Aethelhald 4 года назад +24

      You'd probably want to go back to around 100 AD to see the Roman Empire in all its glory. That's around the time they were at their absolute height of power, militarily and economically. It was also right in the middle of the most prosperous and peaceful period of Europe (and the other parts of the empire) before or since. Europe wouldn't experience peace and prosperity like that again until recent times, like after World War 2.
      If you go back to 220 AD you're gonna see a Roman Empire that has seriously stagnated and fallen to massive corruption, endless civil war and invasion from literally every state on its borders. Oh and total economic collapse, to the point where citizens have gone back to bartering because the money is useless.

    • @Aethelhald
      @Aethelhald 4 года назад +6

      @Arpad Jones You could also go to the time of Diocletian or Constantine the Great. Both of those were also golden eras of the Roman Empire, where their power and society was unrivalled.
      The ultimate period of Rome's greatness though was probably Augustus. They truly were unchallenged and totally peaceful.

  • @pergruntukz6227
    @pergruntukz6227 7 лет назад +91

    95% of people are unable to get through this video!
    Don't cry at the end!

  • @jundragon
    @jundragon 7 лет назад +159

    Roman? let's go bowling!

    • @donaxtrunculus5023
      @donaxtrunculus5023 6 лет назад +25

      Sorry cousin not now, maybe another time.

    • @alimertcangur3547
      @alimertcangur3547 6 лет назад +11

      이준용 ahhh that one hurts

    • @jcam.hart8
      @jcam.hart8 6 лет назад +7

      You think i'm fooling around? Don't get up!

    • @DoctorFail
      @DoctorFail 6 лет назад +8

      _roman! I should never have read your fakin emails and stayed away!_

    • @invalidcrazy7034
      @invalidcrazy7034 6 лет назад +2

      This comment made my day.

  • @mrdredward129
    @mrdredward129 5 лет назад +92

    4:16 *LET'S SPLIT UP GANG!*

    • @user-sz9dj1pl9o
      @user-sz9dj1pl9o 4 года назад +4

      8:51

    • @ct3686
      @ct3686 4 года назад +1

      Its the tetrarchy. 4 emperors 1 empire

  • @fiefdomofumbria6590
    @fiefdomofumbria6590 5 лет назад +91

    10:05 *the top ten saddest anime endings*

    • @cosmiccruise8372
      @cosmiccruise8372 4 года назад +9

      Roman empire is when kids cry
      Byzatine empire is when Teens cry
      Despotate of epirus is when Adults cry

    • @canavarkatili6157
      @canavarkatili6157 4 года назад +1

      @Büyük Küçük Thx

  • @emerson6774
    @emerson6774 3 года назад +2

    I’m glad someone is still using AD

  • @saarthakdhawal1770
    @saarthakdhawal1770 3 года назад +4

    I just love how the Desposate keeps coming back.
    Good Stuff Dude.
    GG

  • @Caesar_Himself
    @Caesar_Himself 6 лет назад +91

    Feels bad man.
    But also feels good for what was.

    • @tsarnature6587
      @tsarnature6587 5 лет назад +9

      Hello fellow dictatoe

    • @rha2298
      @rha2298 5 лет назад +9

      @@tsarnature6587 no, go back to the gulag stalin

  • @AresiaBall
    @AresiaBall 7 месяцев назад +5

    If Remus was in charge of Rome, Rome would have been called Reme.

  • @Wm7forthewin
    @Wm7forthewin 5 лет назад +42

    3:22 those are legendary borders

  • @danielwest6095
    @danielwest6095 4 года назад +138

    7:41 Emperor Basil II was a grade A badass

    • @eric11
      @eric11 4 года назад +6

      One of the best emperor ever

    • @soulplexis
      @soulplexis 4 года назад +4

      One of the cruelest people too

    • @randomblacktemplar738
      @randomblacktemplar738 4 года назад +8

      @@soulplexis Vlad the impaler: hold my stake

    • @mustafaamin9516
      @mustafaamin9516 3 года назад +5

      There’s a reason why he holds the greatest epithet ever conceived: Boulgaroktonos, Bulgar Slayer

    • @pyroshrimp4073
      @pyroshrimp4073 3 года назад +1

      @@soulplexis kaloyan the romanslayer massacred a bunch of cities because why not, he was so cruel there are myths that a divine spirit struck him sown

  • @lordpenance7494
    @lordpenance7494 Год назад +12

    2,232 years of roman civilization. The Byzantines fell 1,003 years after the western roman empire "fell." And 500 years later we still feel the influence the romans left in most of western civilization. One of the greatest to have ever graced out planets. Truly amazing.

    • @netaji-thebritishslayer
      @netaji-thebritishslayer Год назад +1

      One of the most barbarious empires too😂

    • @oerlikon20mm29
      @oerlikon20mm29 9 месяцев назад

      @@netaji-thebritishslayer what do you expect from people who lived before the calendar was invented

  • @haha-kf2xb
    @haha-kf2xb 5 лет назад +242

    *Roman Civilisation*:exists
    *Turks and Germans*:Let us introduce ourselves.

    • @paololontani5228
      @paololontani5228 4 года назад +21

      The ottoman emoire is not comparable with the Glory of Rome

    • @haha-kf2xb
      @haha-kf2xb 4 года назад +18

      Laughs in 1453, Hun raids and Germanic raids

    • @paololontani5228
      @paololontani5228 4 года назад +23

      @@haha-kf2xb The Roman culture is atthe base of the all the word, you can't paragonable this with the ottoman empire

    • @yousfahmad1810
      @yousfahmad1810 4 года назад +6

      Arab: am I joke to you ??

    • @benjaminmoloy7163
      @benjaminmoloy7163 4 года назад +10

      without the arabic/ottoman sultanetes, there wouldn't be modern science.

  • @Catishcat
    @Catishcat 7 лет назад +171

    5:50 - And then Arabs happened.
    PS It was very sad to see years ticking up to 1453...

    • @Albukhshi
      @Albukhshi 7 лет назад +35

      ????
      That brings me to 602. The Arabs were a generation later.
      That means the Sassanid Persians, not the Arabs. People forget that the Sassanids under Khosrau I invaded Byzantine territory in 610, and occupied large parts of it till 627.
      The Arabs don't start conquering till 634.

    • @kenrudd6362
      @kenrudd6362 7 лет назад

      Кэтишкэт i know right so sad same as watching the wast crumble the closest comparison to how sad I am watching this is in the Elder Scroll series the whole life of the Dwemer/dwarves to see the greatest civilization rise and have so much influence in the world and all the progress that has been generated over Millenia to see crumble so fast is fantastic

    • @markhenley3097
      @markhenley3097 7 лет назад +13

      The Persians fought a very long and exhausting war against the Byzantines, and that is why the Arabs found it so easy to conquer all of Persia and over 60%of the Byzantine Empire.

    • @kenrudd6362
      @kenrudd6362 7 лет назад +2

      adi yaf both empires were in decline and the the caliphs were good military leqders as well as muhammad

    • @iskanderbenjemia5524
      @iskanderbenjemia5524 6 лет назад +4

      Islam not arabs

  • @brandonnodine6934
    @brandonnodine6934 8 лет назад +40

    wow that was awesome, Rome is my favorite empire by far out of all of them to study and learn. They are also by far the one have the most respect for outside of my country

  • @fedemvs8971
    @fedemvs8971 3 года назад +13

    THE GREATEST EMPIRE OF ALL TIME

  • @muhammadirfanjalaluddin1018
    @muhammadirfanjalaluddin1018 3 года назад +9

    King Romulus would be crying, jumping joyfully, almost having a heart attack, and mad if he watched this video.

  • @trantor2135
    @trantor2135 8 лет назад +164

    Loooong time ago a young boy called Rome, a great european warrior, met lady Athens, a great culture woman. They fell in love and married. after 550 years of marriage, Rome were killed by Germany, and Athens tried to survive alone, with her sons, but after long time she also died by the hand of evil Ottomans. Her sons avenged their parents killing Ottomans, then the oldest of them Spain, and Portugal, built a huge empire, while France and Italy spreaded culture and good food and Romania, the youngest one tried to survive. Today these five brothers are still here....

    • @sterkar99
      @sterkar99 8 лет назад +6

      Aaand Romania is...Greece I guess?

    • @trantor2135
      @trantor2135 8 лет назад +21

      +WSUH Gaming It was supposed to be ironic, not racist (I really like Turkey).

    • @willemvanrees4015
      @willemvanrees4015 8 лет назад +8

      They speak a germanic language in England, nothing roman about it.

    • @trantor2135
      @trantor2135 8 лет назад +8

      +Niel Relatado Most of british cities were built by romans.

    • @comradefrisealach9246
      @comradefrisealach9246 8 лет назад +6

      +Niel Relatado The English are ethno-linguistically a Germanic people. If anything, England's dad is Schleswig.
      +Sweyn78 English belongs solely to the Germanic linguistic family. It may have a majority Italic vocabulary with most words being coinings from the Renaissance, but it is solely classified as a Germanic as the creolization of English is currently disputed or even accredited to Old Norse, another Germanic language. Remember, 97 of the 100 most frequently used words in the English language are Germanic.

  • @romanempire1571
    @romanempire1571 8 лет назад +97

    ROMA INVICTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  • @elviswho1615
    @elviswho1615 7 лет назад +54

    Without a doubt emperor Augustus, Marcus Aurelius and Justinian where some of the most cappable and succesfull rules of the empire

    • @Yunghamz
      @Yunghamz 6 лет назад +7

      What about Trajen and Hadrian(before old age and illness got the best of him). Also Claudius just because he was seen uncapable by all.

    • @Dustz92
      @Dustz92 6 лет назад +1

      Lord Alehandro Constantine was ok, but Theodosius legacy was terrible in the middle and long term

    • @markhenley3097
      @markhenley3097 6 лет назад +4

      Basil II didn't bankrupt the nation like Justinian, although to be fair, Justinian was fighting a plague.

    • @marstheredplanet2027
      @marstheredplanet2027 6 лет назад

      Manuel was a grear emperor too infact the Ottomans got their balkan borders inspired by him.

    • @SDArgo_FoC
      @SDArgo_FoC Год назад

      @@marstheredplanet2027 He was good, John & Alexios were a lot better.He keeps trying to do this and that, and never really accomplished meaningful permanent gains because he never really invested into it that much.He really reminds me of Justinian, Like how his territories in Dalmatia & balkans fell apart after his death.

  • @bacant_man
    @bacant_man 4 года назад +75

    10:05 "change da world
    my final message,
    goodbye"

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 2 года назад

      The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
      Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
      - Justinian I
      - Justin I
      - Anastasius I
      - Marcianus
      - Valentinian II
      - Gratian
      - Valens
      - Valentinian I
      - Jovian
      - Constantius II
      - Constantine the Great
      - Maximianus "Herculius
      - Diocletian
      - Probus
      - Aurelian
      - Quintillus
      - Claudius II "Gothicus
      - Hostilianus
      - Decius
      Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
      This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) ..

  • @galacticpenguintv6752
    @galacticpenguintv6752 8 лет назад +85

    Amazing wörk, as always.

    • @omerzohar38
      @omerzohar38 8 лет назад +20

      +GalacticPenguinTV It is greät indeed! greät wörk yöü häve döne there, emperör!

    • @userwhosinterestedin
      @userwhosinterestedin 8 лет назад +5

      güys, stöp mäking fün öf this

    • @omerzohar38
      @omerzohar38 8 лет назад +5

      userwhosinterestedin
      Nö. This is äwesöme.

    • @feco91
      @feco91 8 лет назад +3

      Cőme őn gűys, that's nőthing.
      Cipőfűző.

    • @jules6856
      @jules6856 6 лет назад

      omer zohar 😂

  • @bigchillin7771
    @bigchillin7771 4 года назад +88

    5:27 Yall see my boys Justninian and Belasarius doing their thing.

    • @vergil1983
      @vergil1983 4 года назад +2

      based, brother

    • @Universal..
      @Universal.. 2 года назад

      The Illyrians 🇦🇱 contributed a lot to the Roman/Byzantine Empire 🦅 (Fearsome Warriors).
      Here is the list of Roman Emperors 🤴 of Illyrian origin (🇦🇱):
      - Justinian I
      - Justin I
      - Anastasius I
      - Marcianus
      - Valentinian II
      - Gratian
      - Valens
      - Valentinian I
      - Jovian
      - Constantius II
      - Constantine the Great
      - Maximianus "Herculius
      - Diocletian
      - Probus
      - Aurelian
      - Quintillus
      - Claudius II "Gothicus
      - Hostilianus
      - Decius
      Source: The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third by Edward N. Luttwak, page 178, "high-grade cavalry (equites Illyriciani)"
      This region was late Romanized. It was famous for its excellent soldiers, frustrated but courageous. In Illyria (in the geographical sense) was indeed the most powerful of the Roman armies, in charge of watching over the Danube (nearly 12 legions, that is to say 130 000 men) ..

  • @NorthPoleSun
    @NorthPoleSun 4 года назад +31

    When we think of Rome, we think of it as a long time away from Colonization of the Americas. However, if Rome held on for another 20 years, we technically might have been able to see a Roman colony in America.

    • @walx274
      @walx274 3 года назад +4

      Technically yes but feasibley no , you know considering the whole fact they were only a single city at that point

    • @mellowYellow123-r1q
      @mellowYellow123-r1q 3 года назад +1

      Technically Italy is Rome and Italy had American colonies

    • @felipepetersberchielli1651
      @felipepetersberchielli1651 3 года назад +6

      @@mellowYellow123-r1q which? As far as i know France, England, Portugal, Spain and Netherlands are the only nations to colonize the Americas, even the Prussians tried to colonize Venezuela, Italians just colonized some parts of Africa like Ethiopia

    • @dareius831
      @dareius831 2 года назад +1

      @@felipepetersberchielli1651 only the Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany tried to create a colony in South America in the 17th century but failed when he died ... but indirectly there were several unofficial Italian colonies transplanted throughout America(Panama,Venezuela, Uruguay, Brasile, Argentina,ecc...)

    • @felipepetersberchielli1651
      @felipepetersberchielli1651 2 года назад +1

      @@dareius831 not colonies, communities, it is far different, i am myself an italian descendant but not because the Italians colonized parts of Brazil but because they mass migrated to Brazil(and the Americas in general) in the late XIX century.

  • @teamcastro9187
    @teamcastro9187 4 года назад +17

    It really is amazing how the byzantines survived for a thousand years, and how the romans survived for a thousand more. Most empires would survive only 3 centuries, but the roman empire survived 20 centuries.
    It also fits on how the dardanelles gun ended the roman empire. It signalled the end of the ancient/medieval era for Europe and gave rise to the early modernisation period.

  • @BicornioSPA
    @BicornioSPA 7 лет назад +98

    Roma father of Spain!

    • @claudiopomponio7671
      @claudiopomponio7671 6 лет назад +5

      José Andrés *Father of Italy

    • @xunbaluba415
      @xunbaluba415 6 лет назад +6

      Cloud PLI father of west*

    • @alessandro7522
      @alessandro7522 6 лет назад +3

      José Andrés fathers of all peoples from Britain to Iraq and the now civilized world.. 👌

    • @ronildoshi5998
      @ronildoshi5998 6 лет назад

      Cloud PLI both dumbass

    • @whirring91
      @whirring91 6 лет назад

      Father of western culture

  • @maurispagnoli4508
    @maurispagnoli4508 7 лет назад +194

    Make Italy great again!
    Make Byzantium great again!

    • @arbnorveliiu5239
      @arbnorveliiu5239 7 лет назад +3

      Illyrian will never forget, and forgotten fucking barbars.
      Still Italy is ruling our lands. in Adriatic Sea
      South and North
      NorthernWest
      and South West.

    • @maurispagnoli4508
      @maurispagnoli4508 7 лет назад +13

      Arbnor Veliiu What?

    • @arbnorveliiu5239
      @arbnorveliiu5239 7 лет назад

      Mauri Spagnoli Do u know Illyria

    • @maurispagnoli4508
      @maurispagnoli4508 7 лет назад +2

      Arbnor Veliiu no what is that?

    • @arbnorveliiu5239
      @arbnorveliiu5239 7 лет назад

      Mauri Spagnoli Illyrian Lands
      Albania,Dardania (Kosovo) Epirote, Ilirida,Malesia,Montenegro,Presheva,Bosnia,Croatia,Slovenia.
      U stole our lands
      In SouthWest Italy and NorthernWest Italy. Ilyrian lands in ancient times.

  • @wsg8283
    @wsg8283 Год назад +6

    8:33 its sad to see, a recovery was starting to happen but it all had to go wrong from there

  • @ampaaroperez
    @ampaaroperez 5 лет назад +88

    Un saludo desde España a nuestros hermanos italianos 🇪🇸🇮🇹

    • @masterjunky863
      @masterjunky863 4 года назад +8

      Saluti da Milano 🇮🇹🇪🇦

    • @moonlightexperience4350
      @moonlightexperience4350 4 года назад +10

      Un saluto dall'Italia ai nostri fratelli spagnoli! 🇮🇹🇪🇸

    • @MyFacchi
      @MyFacchi 4 года назад +3

      Thank you 🇮🇹🇪🇦

    • @ElColombre27360
      @ElColombre27360 4 года назад +1

      Ciao caro!

    • @ppb4037
      @ppb4037 4 года назад +2

      Master Junky
      Saludos de Hispalis (today Sevilla), city of Hadrian and Trajan (itálica)

  • @seekthetruth4218
    @seekthetruth4218 4 года назад +91

    Huge respect to roman civilization from turkey.

    • @allanjbucknol4414
      @allanjbucknol4414 4 года назад +6

      @@dnm3732 k he didn't mention it so why do u see the need to bring that up

    • @leylaaksoy4674
      @leylaaksoy4674 4 года назад +5

      @@dnm3732 ananla aramızda bir şeyler de has just happened

    • @paramondd4457
      @paramondd4457 4 года назад +1

      DNM's Interests Translate Please Biz Soykırım Yapsaydık Ermenistan Olmazdı Bunu Bil

    • @dnm3732
      @dnm3732 4 года назад

      @@paramondd4457 why do you think I would know what it mean

    • @dnm3732
      @dnm3732 4 года назад

      @@allanjbucknol4414 forget what I did 2 months ago

  • @augustinetail4465
    @augustinetail4465 4 года назад +10

    I like how the music becomes so intense once the Roman empire finally forms

  • @severinvogt2875
    @severinvogt2875 5 лет назад +26

    2:34 Shit starts happening
    3:48 That leader sounds like my name
    5:37 The Byzantine Empire sort of revived the Roman Empire’s land there

  • @katkustarddeadarmy
    @katkustarddeadarmy 3 года назад +7

    10:05 : Theme of Guts starts playing

  • @nayandusoruth2468
    @nayandusoruth2468 5 лет назад +31

    Something to consider, is that the eastern roman empire never truly collapsed into a dark age. It was a powerful economy, and you will find many renaissance ideals born in the east, the Italian renaissance for example, was partly sparked by byzantine scholars fleeing the ottoman empire, and great technologies did appear in this shadow of a once glorious Rome...

    • @Phaedon53
      @Phaedon53 4 года назад

      Exactly.
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Chrysoloras
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laonikos_Chalkokondyles
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrios_Chalkokondyles
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilios_Bessarion
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemistus_Pletho

  • @evklinken
    @evklinken 8 лет назад +18

    In my first year at university we played a little game: when did Rome fall? We got slightly different results, here they are, from earliest to latest:
    312 CE: the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. This is probably a popular one among neo-paganists. Constantine triumphed over Maxentius 'in this sign'. Very debatable if you ask me, but then again, Rome ceased to be the capital of its empire after Constantine took sole power.
    324 CE: for similar reasons. Constantine defeated Licinius and accelerated Rome's Christianization and moved the capital.
    395 CE: the final divorce between East and West. With the most prosperous provinces now divided from the struggling west, the waiting game started. It would take less than a century before it all came crashing down, but Rome was already at the mercy of its enemies.
    410 CE: the first sack of Rome since Brennus and the Gauls invaded 800 years prior. The Goths showed how weak the Empire had become, and any shred of legitimacy was fading away.
    455 CE: the second sack of Rome in the space of half a century. The Vandals didn't exactly vandalize (sorry) the city but they proved once more how useless the court at Ravenna was at being an empire.
    476 CE: exile of the last Western Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustulus. There would be no emperor in the west until Charlemagne claimed this title.
    480 CE: death of Julius Nepos, deposed Western Roman Empire who ruled over a small plot of land in Dalmatia.
    565 CE: death of Justinian, 'the last Roman Emperor'. After his death, the reconquered lands west of the Balkans would slowly be lost again.
    1071 CE: Battle of Manzikert. The Byzantines were crushed by the Turks and showed no sign of recuperation. Anatolia was lost, and the Empire remained only a shadow of its former self.
    1202 CE: Latin Empire founded, loss of Constantinople. The Fourth Crusade kicked the Byzantines out of Byzantium. Need I say more? Probably. But that would make this comment even longer than it already is.
    1453 CE: fall of Constantinople. The capital of the once great Empire was finally lost to the Ottomans due to a f*ing huge cannon.
    1479 CE: fall of the last remains of Byzantine holdings in Epirus.
    1806 CE: 'Holy' 'Roman' 'Empire' abolished. See what I did there?
    1917 CE: end of Romanov dynasty, last claimants of Roman rule.
    Pick your favorite.

    • @evklinken
      @evklinken 8 лет назад +5

      ***** If someone doesn't want to read it, that's fine. And I'm sure a lot are but that hardly seems relevant to my comment.

    • @jhfridhem
      @jhfridhem 8 лет назад

      +evklinken wasnt the fall of constantinople because someone leaved the gate opened?

    • @gregtheglobal
      @gregtheglobal 7 лет назад +1

      jhfridhem one of the soldiers did on accident. If that hadn't happened they might not have reached the walls at all at that siege

    • @KerouacandRimbaud
      @KerouacandRimbaud 7 лет назад +1

      You could say it never ended because of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church.

    • @LauraDixon2025
      @LauraDixon2025 7 лет назад

      evklinken 17

  • @Hfsm33
    @Hfsm33 8 лет назад +38

    A greater Empire never existed. Some peoples conquered more land and in less time, but the fact that the Romans could not only conquer but absorb so many different cultures, from England to Syria, is absolutely amazing.

    • @SaturatedCat
      @SaturatedCat 8 лет назад

      +Hfsm33 What does 'absorb' mean in this context? I hope you're not some multicultural dreamer because they sure as hell weren't holding hands and singing songs around a campfire.

    • @Hfsm33
      @Hfsm33 8 лет назад +3

      Klifsnider No, but they occupied territories with relative peace and often did not depose rulers. Latin culture adaptation was a slow process I imagine.

    • @paars5710
      @paars5710 8 лет назад +3

      +Hfsm33 Modern Greeks have only 79%pure greek dna, the another 21% comes from slavs and armenians. So it proves that during the Byzantine empire, those two nations were absorbed to the Greeks.

    • @firecage7925
      @firecage7925 8 лет назад

      +Macedonian Lion To be fair. Armenians are most likely of Greek descent.

    • @nicolasingh6948
      @nicolasingh6948 7 лет назад

      Hfsm33 and the Roman's weren't defeated by a bunch of farmers angry about taxes

  • @milky2872
    @milky2872 4 года назад +176

    14 Year old Girls: You've never felt real sadness
    Boys: Yes we have
    14 Year old girls: How is that?
    Boys: 10:05

  • @adriantsui9566
    @adriantsui9566 5 лет назад +40

    I'm so happy I watched this in school today! :)

  • @antarcticaresearchprogram8349
    @antarcticaresearchprogram8349 4 года назад +5

    Truly, the greatest empire to have ever existed.
    To have ruled for so long over the most diverse peoples, cultures, and climates.

  • @lorddodge2867
    @lorddodge2867 4 года назад +15

    10:02, every Europa Universalis 4 player: "Time to get back to business"