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In the early seventh century, a generation-long war exhausted and virtually destroyed the Roman Empire. This video explores that conflict through the lens of an Armenian cathedral built to celebrate the Roman victory.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:50 Rome vs. Persia
2:55 Babbel
4:07 Enter Khosrow II
5:37 The Persian attack
6:44 Persia triumphant
7:55 The (Roman) Empire strikes back
8:50 The siege of Constantinople
10:11 The battle of Nineveh
11:04 Roman victory
12:16 The collapse of the ancient world
13:10 Back to Mren Cathedral
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The "true cross"… LOL And then you wonder why christians are looked down upon.
lollll
Very beautifully told. The story ends where the beginning.
14 centuries ago, the church had already been spoiled by Roman paganism for 300+ years. New, I suppose, is in the eye of the beholder.
The takeaway from all of this is people suck and have always sucked.
The illustration is Bulgarian . Its in cyrilic 🙂
This war was basically the start of the Early Middle Ages and the Last Great war of Antiquity, or Late Antiquity to be more precise.
the transition from classical history to medieval history was long and gradual.
The Fourth Crusade was what broke Rome’s back. After that they never recovered their wealth and power.
Fascinating, a humble ruin of a church is all that is left of the glory of the past after all. Is someone trying to restore it to some degree of greatness considering its historical value.
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9:30 I think this picture is not from 600-800. More the end of medieval.
Pretty sure it’s Muslims conquering both is what ended it.
One of the best vids I've seen, but honestly can't stand how you pronounce Constantinople
No rome. No church castle.
The tiresome reading of the cumbersome text is tedious, you guys
How tiresome… there is no sense of history
If only Khosrow hadn't tried to pull a fast one on the Romans and stayed put with his armies so the Persians could've fought off the desert fanatics and restricted them to Arabia… Sigh.
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That was f'n beautiful
Great video,
a small correction in 5.52 you show an illustration which is not byzantine, rather it is a slavic illustration.
(the difference lies in the letters Dobro,zhivete, tverdy znak and some ligatures I cannot read)
In summary:
King of Persia flees to Rome and gets restored to the throne.
Roman king gets deposed, Persian king invades Rome to restore true heir.
Deposer gets destroyed by his governors, and is replaced with Heracleas.
Heracleas defeats Persia and restores the torn Roman empire. (by using H&R tactics in Hayastan)
Having done a research project on the rise of Islam, it's so interesting to see Heraclius in a different light. I'd always seen him as the desperate Roman emperor trying to hold together a stagnating empire in the face of the threat of the united Arab tribes. I'd even known about the conflict between the Sassanid and Roman empires preceding the Arab conquests, but I had always interpreted it in the context of these empires being softened up before the Caliphate delivered the death blow (to Sassania in particular).
It's interesting to see what kind of leader Heraclius was seen as at the time, and just how much of a watershed moment the birth of the Caliphate must have been.
Bull
Jesus' light > war.
https://youtu.be/x8mxxtpMgFo
My home, the U.S. is going through the same process.
I don't know how many web pages / YT videos I've encountered that have explained the difference between 24"/26"/650B/700C/27.5"/29[er?] wheels. Some make sense. None have stuck for more than 5 minutes. User error. Sue me.
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2.) I also have this nightmare idea that the height of the sidewall might figure into all this: that there's some high/low profile choice that I don't even know about.
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"In his »Comparison of the Old and the New Rome«, addressed to emperor Manuel II Palaiologos (1391-1425), Manuel Chrysoloras presented Rome as the mother and Constantinople as the daughter which was founded by the two most powerful and wise peoples of the world, the Romans and the Hellenes, who had come together there in order to create a city that would be able to rule over the whole world. In a sermon to the same emperor, he stated that the Rhomaioi were the offspring of the Romans and the Hellenes, thus being ENTITLED TO USE BOTH NAMES.
Yannis Stouraitis, pp. 86-87, "Reinventing Roman Ethnicity in High and Late Medieval Byzantium" medieval worlds • No. 5 • 2017 • 70-94
"It may be said, however, that despite its multi-national character, three forces tended to give it unity. One was Orthodoxy, the other a common language, and the third the imperial tradition. The first and the second were Greek and to the extent that they were Greek the Empire was Greek also. The third was Roman, and to that extent the Empire was also Roman."
The Transfer of Population as a Policy in the Byzantine Empire Author(s): Peter Charanis Source: Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 3, No. 2, (Jan., 1961), pp. 140-154 Published by: Cambridge University Press
"As heirs to the Greeks and Romans of old, the Byzantines thought of themselves as Rhomaioi, or Romans, though THEY KNEW FULL WELL that they were ETHNICALLY GREEKS."
(see also: Savvides & Hendricks 2001).Niehoff 2012, Margalit Finkelberg, "Canonising and Decanonising Homer: Reception of the Homeric Poems in Antiquity and Modernity", p. 20 or Pontificium Institutum Orientalium Studiorum 2003, p. 482:
"After the Empire lost non-Greek speaking territories IN THE 7th AND 8th CENTURIES, "Greek" (Ἕλλην), when not used to signify "pagan", became synonymous with "Roman" (Ῥωμαῖος) and "Christian" (Χριστιανός) to mean a Christian Greek citizen of the [Eastern] Roman Empire."
"Roman, GREEK (if not used in its sense of 'pagan') and Christian became SYNONYMOUS terms, counter-posed to 'foreigner', 'barbarian', 'infidel'. The citizens of the Empire, now predominantly of GREEK ethnicity and language, were often called simply ό χριστώνυμος λαός 'the people who bear Christ's name'."
Harrison, Thomas (2002). Greeks and Barbarians. New York: Routledge., p. 268
"In the 6th century, the Byzantine legislative made use of both languages, and as a consequence of the Empire's definite territorial reduction to the East, Greek became the only official language of the Byzantine Roman Empire. Parallel to this development, the pagan connotation of the term "hellenikos" lost its importance, and the Byzantines, in particular the educated strata of society, increasingly reverted to "hellenic" cultural (and linguistic) values of Antiquity. In the end, the mediaeval (Christian) Byzantine Empire was characterised by political and cultural identity, whose romanness was inseparably linked with Greek language. Religious (Christian) and cultural and linguistic (Hellenic) stereotypes offered a sense of superiority over all other ethne, combined with the correlating hetero-stereotypes, this sense of superiority was disseminated not only in the upper classes, but throughout the population of Byzantium. It worked also and especially in periods of political decline. THE GREEK LANGUAGE BECAME THE REAL BASIS OF THE ROMAIC NATIONAL AWARENESS."
Johannes Koder (2018) [Hellene, Romios, Greek: Collective Identifications and Identities] Eurasia Publications, pp.85
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grass is the biggest enemy of time 13:27
A fictionalized version of this story is told in a series of books by Harry Turtledove, collectively called The Time Of Troubles, part of a larger series dealing with a fictionalized Constantinople called Videssos.
In my opinion the old world ended when the city states of the Fertile Crescent couldn’t keep their independent without joining empires, it just domino effect from that point
Why do religious groups who believe what they are told by their elders continue with the myth that moral certitude defeated the Byzantine empire. The 6th century plague killed many of the future adversaries of that confused sect that came out of the Arabian peninsula. These tribes, with their mix of different religions, had not been hard hit by the plague due to their remoteness. Perhaps to busy throwing stones at a rock to mix with Rome. Hence there was little resistance when they invaded, due to a lack of population. Stone age stories from stone age sects. The Turkaman defeated Constantinople and not Arabian religious nutters.
Say what you will but I still argue it was yo mommas war on her waistline. Mankind hasn’t been the same since.
When the Romans were defeated by the Persians the newly founded Muslim community had all hoped for a Roman victory because they were people of the book as apposed to fire worshipers but the pagans of Quraish who were torturing and murdering the Muslims rejoiced at persias win because they are idol worshipers! At that same time the Quran revealed a verse about the loss that occurred in the lowest place stating that within ten years the Romans will be victorious against the Persians and at that very same time the Muslims would be victorious over Quraish! After 9 years and on the same day Rome defeated the Persian empire and the Muslims won at the battle of Hudaibiyya!
drip drip drip….c u soon
That damned Phocas destroyed Both Empires
East Roman empire kept on preserving ancient Greek culture and Orthodoxy until 1204 when it fell to the crusaders and 1453 when it fell to the Turks. That was the end, not the Roman Persian Arabic conflict. Western Europeans always undermine Orthodoxy because they see it under a Catholic perspective. Don't forget Thomas Aquinas made his theories about merging Catholicism with ancient Greek philosophy with stolen books from Corinth, and the Italian Renaissance began with books Orthodox fugitives brought from Constantinople. Middle ages in Orthodoxy was the Turkish occupation, not before.
the European antiquity ended from here and this was the official start of all Middle Ages in europe
If you want to have a more Roman-centric perspective of this war, go watch Dovahhatty.
Khosrau was an interesting figure.. he kept the peace of maurice even though he was clearly capable.
Achieved persia's nearest hope at knocking out its competitor in its whole history..i like to think he genuinely held some feeling of debt to maurice amd his family..ie it wasnt merely opportunism
"March 21st; 6:30."
Date AND Time impressive.
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