Why did the Crusaders sack Constantinople in 1204?
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2022
- Why did the Crusaders sack Constantinople in 1204?
the destruction of the Byzantine Empire and its dramatic collapse under the weight of Mehmed the Conquerer’s spectacular invasion is not necessarily the first or only catastrophe staining the history of Constantinople today. In fact, possibly even more devastating, was not the siege of the Byzantine capital by the Ottomans in the 15th century, but instead, the sacking of Constantinople in 1204 by the Crusaders.
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"we did it Patrick we saved the city!"
*Constantinople burning in the background*
Constatinople suffer less damage conquered by the muslim ironically 😂
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@@heslakunama4744 under the Muslim rule it became international city again after long painful decalin since 7 century
@@starcapture3040 im sorry bro, you had too much typo to comprehend
I would rather see a Turkish turban in the midst of the City (Constantinople) than the Latin mitre". -Loukas Notaras
Best quote summing up the 4. Crusade
You can draw stark parallels with the sacking of Rome in 410 by the Visigoths.
When Alaric's army trekked through the Italian peninsula there was no Roman legion in sight.
In fact the peasants he did encounter welcomed him because they were so downtrodden by Rome's high taxes they'd take their chances with the invaders.
They probably thought when they were selling the wives and children of massacred latins(done by them)
@@legiran9564 except that the citizens and nobility hated the latins and didn’t want their candidate. Did you watch the video
@@bokonoo77 The Latins died because they involved themselves in the politics of the empire and their punished by the victorious side (like other groups in the empire).
The Venetians nor the crusaders cared about the massacre enough to even politically punish the byzantines. The massacre happened because of the greed and godlessness of the crusaders which even the pope at the time recognised
@@fabianmiron2782 yeah it’s not like emperor Frederick I or Henry VI threatened to go war
It’s not like Norman kings of Sicily attacked them for it.
West truly despised them for their betrayal
"There never was a greater crime against humanity than the Fourth Crusade" - Sir Steven Runciman
Untill the 20th century
You put a crown on an idiot and this happened.
tell that to red indians in america :)
@@mehmed13 *native american
I don't know. The Mongols did some pretty horrific things on a massive scale IMO.
Romans under the Macedonian and Isaurian Dynasties recovered strength after the Arab conquest, so did the Komnenians after the Turkish invasion of Anatolia, the 4th Crusade however was the dead end
mate, there is actually a nuance between war, invasion and conquest.
@@user-un7or4pv4w Nah Rome is Rome and Romans are Romans, sorry.
The majority of Eastern Roman ruling Dynasties were of non-Greek ethnic origins such as Armenian, Illyrian, Arab, Aramean,... The armies were even more diverse including Wallachs, Varangians, Normans, Turks, Franks,... Claiming Eastern Rome/Romans as Greek is nothing but nonsense
@@user-un7or4pv4w Nope. It was the Roman Empire also known as the eastern Roman empire. Byzantine empire is a misnomer to the highest degree. Roman citizens also spoke Greek. Greek was the language of the eastern lands since Alexander the Great and it also became something like the Romans' second language. Roman citizens spoke either Latin or Greek, but in the east Greek was more accepted. Long story short, it was the Romans who were multi-ethnic like Nenenin stated correctly, and not the Greeks.
@@user-un7or4pv4w nope its Eastern Roman Empire, they were Romans not greeks, stop larping
@@nenenindonu As the first Roman emperor, I must agree with you ^^
So upsetting that the last bulwark of Roman power was razed to the ground in such an unnoble way.
Julius Caesar would have built a wall while running low on supplies
Oh hey, look! An imposter Augustus... That you Otho? Vitellius?
It is the fault of the Romans who cannot pass a year without some revolt, coup, or assassination attempt. Besides, they had a bad foreign policy.
Isn’t your name the other way around? Caesar Augustus rather than Augustus Caesar.
It doesn’t make much sense otherwise
I feel your pain princeps.
Eastern romans: "Could you please try to not invade our territory...FOR FIVE MINUTES!?"
Crusaders, persians, ottomans, mongols, huns, barbarians, etc: "What an awesome capital you have, guys!" 😎
literally everyone tbh
You forgot there's one time the Arab Muslim tried to conquered it too
@@SiPakRubah 2 times*
It’d be a shame if someone were to sack it
@@user-un7or4pv4w They were ethnic greeks with roman citizenship, their nationality is roman but their ethnicity is greek. You can blame roman emperor caracalla for his edicts
Declares Crusade, proceed to attack own faction.
Christians ☕️
Like ISIS did Jihad against own Muslims in Iraq.
@THE LEFT CAFFE
Not really, they told the byzantines that the siege already failed and that a seljuk army was on the way, so alexios turned back
Me casually using the Crusade to attack ex-communicated factions in MTW2
@@leonflaithiuil6596 Catholic Christians**
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The true fall of the eastern Roman empire was in 1204, after the sack Constantinople was a shadow of it's former glory.
@UC67_GB6T3dJy7XIMXbEskaQ I say after the death of Maurice, his descendants were from his dynasty and after Phocas there was no Latin-speaking ruler of the Romans after that
@@RedPawner A lot of the eastern Roman emperors after Phocas learned Latin, even though it was not the language of the court in the later medieval age. Phocas II himself spoke Greek and Latin very fluently, which I find to be a telltale marker of Roman-ness. Phocas was rumored to be descended from the Flavian house of ancient Rome. He was not the last emperor speaking Latin, though. Even the later Palaiologians strove to learn Latin. Mostly to appear as part of the European community of those times, and they also learned Latin so that their proposal to reunite the western and eastern churches would succeed.
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What I have always wondered is how the crusaders were able to overcome and sack Constantinople so quickly and easily.At that time,it was the best fortified city in the world and had a large army.The fourth cusade was by far the smallest crusade numerically and the most fractured of all.They were spread out everywhere...
I believe its because most were already in the city
Fantastic work as always. Nice video production, investigation and historical interpretation. Thank you!
Ironic how every crusade involved attacking, killing, and sacking Christians before getting to the Holy Lands
All non Catholics
aren’t Christians tho by there standards
well they're not Christian ,thou shall not kill.
@@johncane2304Yeah but is killing heretics killing?
You see now, why they did the deed?
had been waiting for this for a LONG time.
The bastards got what they deserved in the end. Emperor Baldwin was captured by the bulgarians his army crushed by Kaloyan together with most of the Latin high command. That bastard the red duke died of a hearth attack caused by terror thinking Kaloyan would come and take Constantinople. Most of the nobles and commanders that took part in the sack of the city died from bulgarian arrows or getting literally beaten to a pulp when they fell from their horses. The bulgarians used lassoes to get the knights of their horses and after that the infantry beat the brakes off of them with clubs and axes
Same Kaloyan and Bulgarians did alot of damage to Greek rump Byzantine states too
Actually remnants of the Latin empire continued to exist until 1715.
@@paulpaul1771
Which ones??? The Latin empire itself fell in 1261
@@paulpaul1771 What Where How tell
which battle is that i want to read about it
Constantinople had a recurring habit of making itself very much disliked if not outright despised by the Latins, so it didn't really take much convincing by the Venezians to get the Crusaders to sack it. This persisting antipathy was also the reason the city was largely left to it's fate when the Ottomans besieged it centuries later.
Half right
You forget that the Pope excommunicated the Crusaders. Or all the Crusades that were called to fight the Ottomans before they took Constantinople. Or that the Latins had basically forced Byzantium to become their protectorate, gaining more out of its trade, than the emperor got out of taxing all its lands. Or the Crusaders invading Zara which had done nothing to anyone.
Their narcissistic nature of the Byzantines was the cause of their Downfall.
There are several particularities of that failed crusade. However the sack of the jewel of the east comes from a cave mentality. This sack is one of the top brutal of all in the history.
@@joaoomega6627 honestly how could they even see themselves as superior while letting some peasant or known boy from Armenia to be their emperor
Your production is really improving
Possibly one of the biggest examples of "losing the plot" of all time
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Crusader: “Hey guys, i have an idea: lets sack, plunder and ruin this fellow christian state on the edge of our greatest enemy borders!”
Other Crusaders: "makes sense, lets do it!”
Sounded quiet hilarious and eerie at the same time. 😅😂😬
Don't massacre thousands of latins
Before Constantinople they also attacked the very pious city of Zara so they attacked 2 main Christian cities in the crusade
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Funny how these people complain about Vikings, Pagans and Muslims and yet commit atrocities to one another despite being same faith to a degree.
"Oh, not more crusaders? Frederick Barbarossa, I do not want that filthy army in my city, turn back at once!" - Constantinople
Ottomans: struggled for years to capture Constantinople.
Christian Crusaders: Took Constantinople in a couple of days 😭
Its called constantinople being extremely unprepared (no one expected the event soon enough, unlike other fights), hence adding to why the 4th crusade is a shock
Allahu Akbar
prophet Muhammad have prophecy about concuaqing Constantinople
Also ottomans kick infield crusader ass in every War 😭
@@EndTimeNarrative his prophecy of taking Rome never came true.
@@SultanSuleiman980 Ottomans? You mean the ottomans that begged the French and British to intervene Everytime the Russians starting knocking on constantinople? That Ottoman empire? British empire singlehandedly extended that sting empires life by 150 years and then ended it.
It is impressive that the Romans could recover from the magnitudes of such a siege, even if only partially.
For a time, but then everything went wrong for them, not related to the fourth crusade.
Not really. They never really recovered from the conquest of 1204. The Byzantines would eventually retake Constantinople but the Empire was only the shadow of it's former self
@@maxtomlinson8134 All major scholars and podcasters agree a regime change would have seen them recover. The betrayal ruined them
"The Western Europeans had long felt a jealous dislike for the Greeks; and the refusal of the Greek Church to abandon all its traditions and submit to the authority of the Roman pontificate added to their dislike. The Greeks were schismatics and not to be trusted."
Steven Runciman, Greece and the later crusades, From the New Griffon, A Gennadius Library Publication, American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
As today they are pitting the EU against Greece
As today they are pitting the EU against Greece
Greeks = Byzantines, Greek church = Orthodox church. Don't be too arrogant...
@@user-hx2xl2km2e From your surname i deduct that you are of Bulgarian ancestry. Well let's see how your ancestors referred to the Byzantines in still surviving primary sources...
"In this respect, it is noteworthy that early-medieval written evidence from the Bulgar realm testifies to a Bulgar preference to the ethnonym Graikos (Greek), instead of Rhomaios (Roman), by the designation of the Eastern Romans.
The use of the former ethnonym seems to have been predominant among the other Slavic peoples of the Balkans as well, should we consider the textual evidence in their languages that originates, however, from the late Middle Ages."
Yannis Stouraitis, pp 130, "Byzantine Romanness: From geopolitical to ethnic conceptions: Early Medieval Regions and Identities"
"The Romans and the Bulgarians viewed each other as distinct people, and many among the latter, especially the former ruling class, desired freedom from “GREEK oppression".”
"Later medieval Bulgarians called the Byzantine period “the GREEK slavery.”
Anthony Kaldellis, "Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade", pp. 174
@@user-hx2xl2km2e Your ancestors referred to the "Byzantines" as "Greeks" and "Romans" interchangeably and actually showed a preference for the term Greek.
Now read what In the last decades of the empire’s existence (1430's), Ioannes Kanaboutzes spelled out to his Latin masters:
“One is not a barbarian on account of religion, but RACE, LANGUAGE, the ordering of one’s politics, and EDUCATION. For we are Christians and share the same faith and confession with many other nations, but we call them barbarians, I mean the Bulgarians, Vlachs, Albanians, Russians, and many others.”
Kanaboutzes, Commentary on Dionysios of Halikarnassos 35.
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You seem to have completely forgotten about Venice's role in this. Did the Doge of Venice pay you of or something?
Technically Venezia (Venice) never declared secession from the Roman Empire (as well as Sardinia), even if after Ravenne felt they started to be more and more indipendent de facto. So, technically, this Coul be considered a civil war.
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That's wrong. Venice was considered fully indipendent by the byzantines since the age of Basil II, who tried diplomatically to ally Byzantium with Venice to defend himself by the sea raids.
@@WFASPigeonGang ok, prove it. Tell me the moment Venezia declared secession or was occupied by a foreign power. You cannot, it never happened, there were moments when Constanipolis Coul name its dux/doge (yes, it's the name of a Roman Empire magistratum), moments when they named him by themselveses, moments in the middle, the diminishing of the empetial authority was no linear thing and even in the days of Charlemagne he didn't occupy some lands, among them Venezia, not to piss off Costintinopolis, at least not too much, after taking Rome and Longobardia Major
@@Nicods Toso, te lo dico in italiano giusto perché così comprendi bene: quello che dici è storicamente e giuridicamente falso. In primis perché Carlo Magno provò a conquistare l'allora Ducato di Venezia, ma la sua flotta, guidata dal figlio Pipino, venne sconfitta dai Veneziani con l'aiuto dei Bizantini, quindi stare a dire che Venezia dipendeva totalmente da Bisanzio tra l'ottavo e il decimo secolo è mendacia. Dall'ottavo al decimo secolo infatti Venezia finì di essere un territorio amministrato dall'esarcato di Ravenna (ergo sotto amministrazione bizantina) e la Venezia marittima venne riformata in ducato di Venezia, ovvero non più un territorio ma uno stato cliente. Se non conosci la differenza te la spiego: un territorio è una parte facente parte dell'impero che deve ubbidienza all'imperatore, ma che è meno centralizzato e quindi deve minori uomini e risorse all'imperatore stesso rispetto ai Themi. Uno stato cliente è uno stato che agisce per conto proprio in temi di politica interna ed estera ma che tributa denaro in cambio di protezione. Di fatto, per rimarcare un'altra menzogna da te citata, i dogi non venivano eletti direttamente dall'imperatore a seconda della loro influenza: dopo la morte del secondo doge, Marcello Tegaliano, il doge venne continuamente eletto da un'assemblea popolare, e non direttamente scelto dall'imperatore. Comunque, ritornando sul punto della questione, dato che comunque uno stato cliente è uno stato separato da quello da cui dipende, è totalmente erroneo dire che una guerra tra uno stato cliente e quello da cui dipende sia una guerra civile, perché una guerra è civile se accade all'interno di un unico stato, non in due separati. Per citarti un esempio: la guerra tra Basilio II e Barda Foca fu una guerra civile perché Barda Foca era un generale bizantino che voleva detronizzare Basilio, mentre la guerra veneziano-bizantina del 1122-1226 non fu una guerra civile perché da un lato c'era Venezia, stato a sé, e dall'altro c'era l'Impero Bizantino, altro stato a sé. Sta di fatto quindi che Venezia era uno stato indipendente già dalla sua riforma a ducato, ma che era pur sempre cliente rispetto all'impero Bizantino. Lo stato di clientela però fu prima allentato da Basilio II e poi totalmente infranto da Alessio I quando questi divenne dipendente della flotta veneziana, di fatto considerando l'impero e Venezia pari diplomaticamente. Amen.
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Should have mentioned the massacre of the latins 20 years before… that didn’t help Constantinople at all.
Now I know the main reason was $$$, but to be honest I think they had it coming when they blinded Enrico. If an envoy says something you don't like, deporting him is fine, maybe even fine his paymaster, but blinding an envoy is going too far.
That's a myth though, Dandolo's blindness is considered to be due natural causes as his handwritting in documents he wrote and signed show a gradual deterioration over time; that being said a lot of the leaders of the Crusade had personal reasons behind their conduct like Boniface of Monferrat whose younger brother was murdered 20 years before in the violence and massacres that happened with the accession of the throne of Andronikos Komnenos.
I consider this as a crime, history is powerful
A crime? Why?
The biggest christian city in the world was destroyed by christians thats why@@maxtomlinson8134
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The Fourth Crusade: Whoops! Wrong holy city
Thank you
Could you please talk about interwar Romania?
All the crusades were based on lies, profit, most knights were adventurers who were going to seek glory and fortune or at least the forgiveness of their sins, there was nothing holy about these adventures.
Wow!!!A fascinating history of the Constantinople fall indeed,good friends!!!
It's cool that the video duration is 12.02 :)
Can you make a video about battle of firaz 15k vs 300k?
Greed, the root of all evil- is of course one of if not the largest reason why as per usual when things get looted.
In all fairness, how did this happen? If the crusaders sacked a Christian city to pay the Venetians (why they didn’t ask for an advance I’ll never know): that would be one thing. But to then go out of their way to Constantinople? Why did any of the crusaders agree to this? How was there no mass mutiny?
Western europe didn't like the byzantines that's why they were ok with it
This is from someone elses comment, "MPORTANT! Many people refuse to say that there is a different between a crusader and a templar knight. On this occasion those armies were composed mostly by mercenaries,new recruits and people looking for wealth attracted by the success of previous crusades. Thats why they didnt have a problem attacking other christians and basically screwing the whole point of the crusades. The thumbnail just make this worse. Is the equivalent of false news."
Well they get their money when he is crowned emperor.
Since then he would have the funds to actually pay them.
Didn't the Byzantines murder all catholics within Constantinople a few years prior? That would certainly explain the motivation of the crusaders.
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I love the thumbnail
I’ve studied this crusade and read books on it by supporters of each side. On a visit to Venice I had a tour guide who spoke of it declaring that Venice “won” the 4th Crusade rather than admit they betrayed Christendom.
Not like the eastern Christians killed the Latins in Constantinople in 1182, oh wait they did. Don’t pretend that there was much of a brotherhood between the 2 Christianity denominations
@@sebe2255 Don’t try to put words in my mouth.
@@dustyk103 What did he say?
@@loganicfilms1388 I don’t remember what he said. I didn’t record his response because it was stupid and petty, which is why he deleted it so others wouldn’t see.
@@dustyk103 shame.
The summary of this film has a Grain of Truth in it,but.
Most of the Crusaders withdrew from this "trip"
They did not leave Venice, attack Zara, and take part in the attack on Constantinople.
please also made a video about restoration of byzantium after this.
It ends with Michael the 8th becoming emperor by blinding the emperor he was serving.
This video needs re-edited to be 3 seconds longer!
I think the fourth crusade are the only time we can say that Constantinople was preached because in 1453 it was a small city state rather than a capital of empire
Doesn't matter about the terrority, the city it's self it's absolutely huge and is capable of being self-sufficent and is unassailable most of the time. So it was breached, 1204, 1261 by the Empire of Nikaea which is a byzantine successor state, and in 1453 by Ottomans there is one in 1376 which was during a civil war, but it's not well documented.
So theres a country called "Rum" on that map i think we need a video on them
Everybody wants to be Rome, even the Turks.
@@dyingember8661 No, that was not why it was called Sultanate of Rum. The Turks called the citizens of the eastern Roman Empire because they were calling themselves Romans. The name Sultanate of Rum stuck, it was in reference to the Islamic rule over the eastern Romans of Anatolia. These Romans eventually converted to Islam and started speaking Turkish...and their descendants are still Turks today.
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Crusaders were just mercenaries so of course profit was the game.
Not really. As stated in the video; the crusaders who sacked the city were a minority.
@@attika3145 a minority. Lol
Overly cynical, I'm sure some did have some true faith motives. But they were largely used for the profits of the nobility.
they didn't talked about the latin mass murder?
Long story short Money, by then the Crusaders are basically Rouge and Practically Mercenaries originally they wanted to just pay a debt to the Venitians but spiralled into the conquest of Constantinople.
Really I'm surprised it took as long as it took
*Question:* Why did the Crusaders sack Constantinople in 1204?
*Answer:* Because it felt good
Because money.... I mean God!! Please don't tell our men we've condemned them to hell by order of our own Pope...
It wasn't just because it felt good but because they got cheated and weren't payed.
@@zxylo786 because it felt good
To be honest they had it coming.
Because italy hated greece
When your ancestors sacked Rome, so you make sure his descendents sack Byzantium
The Latins were more Romans than the Byzantines.
You should have included what happened to the crusaders in April 1205 - The battle of Adrianopol. Karma sucks for sure.
Easily could have been avoided in they choose Boniface of Monferrat as Latin Emperor or Henry of Flanders, who became emperor later on but Baldwin is for the record a terrible leader./
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This event spell the end of the Eastern Roman Empire
More than 50 years later it would be restored but never being able to enjoy its former might and prestige. Yet remarkably it still managed to limp on for another two centuries before the Ottomans under Mehmet II put it out of its misery.
@@barbiquearea the eastern Roman Empire after the fourth crusade was dead by that point
Can it be said (roughly), it was the extension of Germanic powers attacking Romans?
Yes indeed. One proof is in the composition of ruling princes and kings of the medieval era, across the old continent of Europe. For example contemporary Spain, despite being a native Iberian peninsula nation, was founded originally by Visigothic chieftains. The Vandals originally colonised pretty much most of northern Africa, but they got destroyed pretty quickly in a war against the Byzantine empire, under Justinian.
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@@markeedeep and then justinians heir ruined the possibility of a reunified roman empire
@@smartyrasor5435 never looked into what followed Justinian's succession, to be honest. It's hard to say what the Byzantines were trying to achieve, except to reconsolidate the founding boundaries of the empire, along the Mediterranean basin. They wanted to take back Italy and Spain by force, that much we know for certain.
@@markeedeep i honestly dont know much about what happened after justinian died but inkniw that his successer lost most of the territory he gained
This was a video for me
Sad fact is this same template of attacks would be repeated over the centuries, by various passing empires and kingdoms from the West. It started with Roman papist catholicism, but the same disdain for the east ended up prevailing with Protestant kings and rulers (not all though), followed by latter day atheists, occultists etc. The axis puppet state of "Croatia" during WWII, however, is a modern day copy of the crusader destroyers of 1204, because each were equally Roman papist.
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First of all, thank you so much for giving the crusader in the thumbnail and at the end of the video a germanic appearance. The vast majority of people and channels forget or don't know that the majority of crusaders had a Dolph Lundgren appearance. A FULL GERMANIC appearance. Flemish, Normans, Franks.
The minority were the gallo-roman French and other whites that contained admixtures and therefore had more black hair and looked more mixed. But the dominant appearance of a Western European at that time was that of Dolph Lundgren. Extremely common. Now very rare. I say this because most people and channels tend to give the crusaders and the Western Europeans of those times an arab appearance which is very inaccurate
False, the majority of the Crusaders were French-speaking (Norman, Picard, Lorraine, Champagne) and Occitan, not Germanic, moreover Old French was the vehicular language in the Holy Land, never German
@@clement7652 Nobody is speaking about German. Only you.
Germanic doesn't mean "German"
Also, the Flemish didn't speak French. They spoke old Dutch
@@clement7652 Idk why you're bragging about language here
My comment didn't talk about language as far as I know
I talked about physical appearance and genetics and what I said is correct
@@clement7652 Maybe go to a doctor
@@chadsupporter4093 I never spoke of the Flemish...
How can you know the genetics and their appearance it was in the middle ages... idiot
Fourth comment
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every religious power person ever (minor and major leaders)
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If you want to know whether someone is paying lip services to the Eastern Roman Empire, just ask "do you know what happened to Constantinople in 1204"?
Much of classic Roman literature known to us was preserved at this time and carried back to Italy. Included were Aristotle's codex and Euclid's geometry (then unknown in the West). Most famous of all is the holy Shroud of Turin. Thank heaven, a gift to the whole world.
Catholics have barbarically stolen it all.
Next video on what was lost in the sack
In short, the very essence of Rome. Watch kings and generals video on the exact same topic to know more about it
After fourth Crusade is successful in CK2 this appears.
End of an Era.
Constaninople falls to great cheers of Catholic Crusaders. The world weeps as last lingering memories of Roman Empire shatter.
Only Time will tell, if the Catholics remembered as the ones who broke the Christian Bulwark, or the ones who restore the Rome back to greatness?
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The 4th Crusade was in a nutshell, Latin Romans verses Greek Byzantines.
Germanic peoples vs Roman Empire under the Hellenic Angelos dynasty
No such thing as Greek Byzantines. It was Greek-speaking Romans versus Germanic and Frankish peoples, with Venetians and Spaniards. Latin Romans ceased to exist in 1204, aside from those speaking Latin in Rome itself.
@@user-jy8mj8qb6w I say the Germanic peoples of Western Europe were more Roman than the Greeks because they spoke and wrote in Latin and acknowledged the authority of the Pope in Rome.
@@papazataklaattiranimam Germanic peoples can be Roman. They adopted Latin and still acknowledged the authority of the Pope, the last relic of the Roman Empire. The Byzantines were Greeks who broke away from the Roman Empire, but continued to call themselves because of pride.
@@theawesomeman9821 There is no such thing as Latin or Greek Romans. Those were their languages not ethnicities or identities.
5:17 PayPal legate?? So why didn't they just pay the Venitians via that?
My simple answer is greed.
The sack of Constantinople brings pain to my romaboo heart.
I used to think that humanity was pretty savage in the past, but after watching current events unfold for some time I can easily see how another 'crusades' is inevitable, and maybe even necessary in the future. History always repeats itself
what an insane comment
As much as that'd be great its not gonna happen. Muslims have conquered people like the Swedes to the point that they have to have road signs in Arabic and the Christians will just sit down and take it. Not with a bang but with a whimper
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Swedes were never part of the Crusades, on the contrary they were attacked by the Crusaders.
wild take 💀
I posted this before the muslim riots in France. They are currently rioting in Sweden now too. The have made their intentions well know that the goal is conquering Europe. So why dont the native Europeans have a right to defend their countries? Why dont they have a right to maintain their majority in their ancestral homelands? It is very apparent that some cultures dont mix and we are reminded daily in europe that this is the case
Why does the danish flag and the knights of temp are look almost the same.
10:15 As an enthusiast of crusader history I did not know Speros Vryonis before this video but it appears he is not an expert in history of the crusades and has bias towards Byzantium and Greece. This statement is simply untrue. Firstly because as far as the crusades to Holy Land countinued throught 12th and 13th centuries it did stop islamic world from advancing forward, second because there were many different theaters and times in which crusades were called. Crusades in Iberia and the Mediterrean succeded to repell islam from Western Europe, ultimetly with Grenada War (1492) and Lepanto (1571). Crusader efforts in the Balkans like Belgrade (1456) or Vienna (1683) also stopped muslim invasions even with many failures along the way and ultimetly led to decline od the Ottomans. Also each crusade should be recognized as it's own thing. Regarding crusader movement in general as a failure is simply false. Overall as far as it countinued and there was motivation for them the movement was succesful in the end.
Better read Johnatan Riley-Smith, Thomas Madden, Bernard Hamilton or Thomas Asbridge - historians who really care about crusader history.
Deus Vult
Untill this year , Crusaders doesnt get how Muslims can arrange an army just by an Imam telling them about a holly war, they are just defending their home land,their religion without the need for money or gold or any crown. Europeen did the crusades not to defend their religion , it was only for expedition and Gold
Imagine seeing the rome from the state of recovering its land till your brother raided you 😭 this piss me off
Eurasian history is so interesting. No surprise that those countries score the highest on IQ tests by far.
"With the collapse of the empire in the west, its eastern counterpart became, in reality, an entirely new and independent state, at once Greek by language and Roman in name: 'A Greek Roman empire'."
Roderick Beaton, "The Greeks: a global history", New York: Basic books 2021, pp. 212
Similar to 501st Journal. Noice
I am Greek, and even I do not believe this BullShit that you are spouting. Byzantium was just a continuation of the old Roman Empire. It clung onto the old Roman ways and continued the Roman state until its last breath in 29th May, 1453 when the Mehmed the II conquered New Rome and defeated the last Roman Emperor, Constantine XI.
@@user-wf4lz6md9d At last, a Greek who knows the truth ^^
@@user-wf4lz6md9d You don't seem to be able to grasp that Roman identity was solely a political identity until the empire was geographically reduced to mostly Greek speaking areas at around the 7th century A.D. But after the loss of Syria and North Africa by the Muslims, the term "ROMAIOS" gradually took an ethno-linguistic sense referring ONLY to the GREEK SPEAKING Chalcedonian Christians (who now were the majority population of the empire), utterly becoming a SYNONYM of the terms "GREEK" (which was always being used as the Latin semantic equivalent of "Hellene") and "HELLENE" itself which gradually from the 10th century onwards also revived with it's original ethno-cultural connotation (since paganism was no longer a threat) and came to refer to the same peoples till this very day.
In the "Etymologicum Genuinum" of the 9th Century Graikos=Hellene. In the "Souda" Lexicon written in the 10th century Graikos=Hellene and also Graikos=Romaios and in the "Zonaras" Lexicon of the 12th century Romaios=Graikos=Hellene. But then I guess you don't even have a clue what the Souda or Zonaras Lexica even are...
@@user-wf4lz6md9d "The Greek ideal that was revived in Byzantium surpassed the Roman ideal, which was left to the "Latins", a term that included without distinction the various peoples of western Europe who were treated as a compact set in opposition to the Greeks."
"The Byzantine empire was clearly, despite its multinational dimension, a GREEK empire while its neighbours considered it so, and whose unity was based on the power of authority, in the dominance of Orthodoxy and the use of Greek as the official language."
Sylvain Gouguenheim, "La gloire des Grecs", 2017, pp. 72,73
crusaders killed 80 thousand muslim in jerusalem alone, what did you expect
How did skanderberg betray the ottoman empire part 2?
Why didn't the Pay Pal states finance it?
My great grandfather uncle's cousin brother was a byzantine cataphract, His name is Theodoros Andronikos, armored heavy cavalry and later the varangians
The moment when true men cried.
Dude you are indian aren’t you ? This is christian matter not non-believer.
@@Kaiser_MaulYes, I am an Indian. It doesn't matter what religion I follow and what country I am from. This event was one of the most tragic ones in the history. I love European history more than the history of my country.
@@gocool_2.0 Then why do Indian's hate the West?
@@paulfri1569 Not all Indians hate the west. Most of the Indians especially the north Indians are insecure about the days of colonization by the British and Islamic conquests. We in South don't have such insecurities as we were left out of the brutalities of Islamic conquests and British weren't that bad to us compared to the Northern parts. Most of the Indians who migrate to the west are from South India. Personally I love the west and it's history.
@@gocool_2.0 Wish we had bigger connections with India. More trade and ancient European people's came from India.
Are we just going to ignore the sea of RUM just sitting there on the map?
Talk about shame .............wow!
It wasn't Byzantium, it was what was left of the Roman Empire. That's what makes it more tragic.
Agreed. May their memory be eternal.
greeks massacre catholic civilians in constantinople in 1150. this event also was revenge
Ssssh orthodoxs dont like full history
"outsing"?
Crusaders :- I got the holy land .
Pope :- Perfect .
Civilians :- But at what cost ...