Byzantine Dark Ages

[@pklimatsakis]

Great video, please keep up the good work. Your work will be recognized

[@damiankubiak1997]

thanks for all the videos! best history channel on youtube for me!

[@EscalaAnark]

I can't Watch the whole video... I feel sad when i remember the byzantines

[@panagenesis2695]

History needs to be known, especially if it's tragic. That's how we learn and, hopefully, not repeat it.

[@exarkun516]

I know right! The whole Roman story is very moving to me.

[@davidfinch7407]

I understand. But there's always a silver lining. Scholars artists and craftsmen fled from the Ottomans in 1453, settling in Italy. To a great extent, they sparked the renaissance. Europe grew from that and dominated the world, teaching medicine, trade, and parliaments to savages and improving the other civilized realms as well. The legacy of Byzantium lives on in all of us.

[@fairoboilawrence5287]

@@davidfinch7407 i get bullied so much for the fall of Constantinople it is a crime that it was not returned to the Orthodox christians. And the insult of turning it back into a mosque

[@matm4413]

this corrupt state had little connection to and cared little for most of its population which lived in the rural areas, don't be sad for a system with no future

[@achillesrodriguezxx3958]

753 BC to 1453 AD. The longest state in the world. 2205 Years

[@iDeathMaximuMII]

2,205*

[@lilestojkovicii6618]

China begs to differ

[@koboldgeorge2140]

@@lilestojkovicii6618 China is like seven distinct states, stitched together over the same terrritory.

[@brendangallagher1124]

haha, well I shouldn't laugh, but the mystery as to the loss of the library of Alexandria is a great metaphor. Thanks for the fantastic channel, slowly watching all of your history videos (I appreciate the political ones, but won't watch all of them, especially the old ones) You must teach? your students are lucky.
One point, I'm pretty sure that Chersonesus was a trading point and the grain itself was harvested in modern Ukraine, as the soil is perfect for cultivation. It's also why Crimea is a money pit unless you can import food from the Ukrainian hinterlands. Cultivation of the northern steppes of Crimea only became productive after Soviet initiatives to divert water to the peninsula from the Dnepr river.

[@HxH2011DRA]

I see, good explanation

[@ilgufo1146]

Can you give me the sources used for this video?

[@josiahbishop3125]

Remember, it’s not about the destination; it’s about the friends made and bulgars slain along the way that really matters.

[@phdtobe]

Money was tight ACROSS the board.

[@malicant123]

When your empire can out last climate change, it's been there a while.

[@panosbaratheon6385]

i am fuming ,
after 200 years of arabs invasion there is a streak of good emperors , the empire recovers and expands and after all that arp aslan comes the guy literraly born behind Aral sea and destorys you. Byzantium somehow manages to recover and then for good mesures the crusaders destroy your capital.
All is history

[@KebenaranSejati-gf8eh]

We are proud of The Byzantium empire, and we - the Christians, are humiliated by its destruction.

[@josipbroztito204]

I thought slav migration was myth

[@marcelcostache2504]

tell that to my ancestors that almost lost there langauge and identity thanks to the slavs.

[@MegaBaddog]

@@marcelcostache2504 you a bulgarian or romanian

[@milospesic2454]

It is contested. It was decided on Berlin Congress in late 19th century and had not been reviewed. Politics of Balkans makes it hard to do.

[@serbianpatriot9321]

Yes it was a myth, local people rebelled against roman opression

[@RedWolf75]

@@serbianpatriot9321
The Balkans was Greek or Latin speaking. How did the Slavic languages get there?

[@zhelyazkodimitrov4027]

BYZANTIUM is founded in 330 AD.

[@hexapodc.1973]

wrong on every level

[@lilestojkovicii6618]

There was no such b word thing
It's a german lie

[@zhelyazkodimitrov4027]

Very bad. Very.