This channel is about to get a lot bigger with Dovahatty starting his Byzantine series. Keep up the great work!

@skoomamuch356

3 жыл бұрын

Search "byzantuim Ii: rise of justinian" Better quality than dovahatty

@sockshistorychanel7715

3 жыл бұрын

they are about equal

@improbvspver8346

3 жыл бұрын

This channel has the best eastern Roman content tho

@juliusoctavian69

3 жыл бұрын

Skooma Much it’s not the same I like dovahs style better

@Dev-jg6db

3 жыл бұрын

Stop

Music from Age of Empires II? You're great.

@EasternRomanHistory

3 жыл бұрын

It is, glad you liked it.

@alyenendrovtsorokean7406

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love that!

I still find this era of Byzantium the most interesting since there's still a lot we don't know

The use of fork was only practiced after year 1000 or so. It was invented so that the high ranking people at banquets in the palace would not have the wide collars of their dresses get entangled with the food while eating.

How the Medevial Roman Empire became (defacto) the Greek Medevial State. After 212 every free man of the empire became Roman citizen,the name Hellene(Greek)was synonymus to idolater and after Constantine the Great we stoped calling our selfs Greeks(idolater)and called our self what we were Romans. Α common misunderstanding is that Hellene(greek) ment the nation of the Greeks,yes in the classical period but not in the Middle Ages, Hellene meant everyone that worships the old religion and Roman meant the civilized Christian citizen of the Empire. All this ofcourse after the Christianazation of the Empire by Constantine the Great. There is the Early Roman Empire (27BC -284ΑD) called Principate the Late Roman Empire(284AD-476AD) called Dominate and the Medevial Roman Empire(476AD1453AD) wrongly called Byzantium by the West. Τhis is how the Medevial Roman Empire changed from a mixed Greek-Latin based culture empire to a Greek one,how Greeks became Roman and why Greeks are the sole inheritors of Medevial Rome: By 330AD Rome wasn't the city it was the Empire. The Roman empire started at 27BC and ended 1453AD the only difference is that the Greek culture part survive and the Latin culture part fell. Rome wasn't a city or the citizens of Italy that spoke Latin,Rome by then was the civilized world and Roman the civilized man. The reasons that the Greeks are the heirs of Constantine (who was half illyrian half Greek) are: 1. From 330AD Hellene(Greek) was the idolater the man that worships the idols so the proud Greco-Roman (ethnically Greek but Roman citizens) Christians stop calling them selfs Greeks because this title was synonymous to idolater and gave emphasis on what they the really were,ROMANS ( civilized Christian citizens of the Empire). 2. By moving the capital of the Roman Empire to the heart of the Greek world in the city of Byzantium ethnic Greeks immediately start to gain governmental positions and influence in politics. 3. By 500AD all the Romans in the west had gone extinct because the Barbarians conqered them, The Huns commit a genoside on the Illyrians and thus the only Romans(civilized people) that now existed were the hellenized citizens of Eastern Rome. (The barbarians gave to Emperor Zeno all the titles of the Western empire and recognised his authority over them and him as the only Roman Emperor and his state the only Roman Empire) 4. Up until the 640s the Empire had many nationalities Greeks,Lombards,Armenians,Assyrians, Copts,Jews and north Africans in Libya all these were Romans that had 2 things in common they were predomently Hellenized (spoke greek as 1st or 2nd language & had a greek based culture) and all of them were and called them selfs Romans meaning civilized Christian man and not by any other name. When I say Hellenized I historically mean Romanized cause after the fall of the Latin West, Hellenic culture became the Roman culture. After 640s and 50s places like Armenia,Syria,Palestine,Egypt were conquered,the Slavs migrated in the Empire lands and half of the Balkans were lost and by 700 North Africa was finally taken by the muslims,so the only Romans(civilized people)of the Empire that were not conqered were the ethnically Greek citizens of the Empire. Who again didn't call them selfs Greeks because at that time and up until the 14th century Greek was the idolater that worships the idols and was almost an insult, they called them selfs: Ρωμαίοι(Romaioi,Romans)and the Greek language was called the Roman language. 5. By 717AD and the Isaurian dynasty Greeks were 75% of the population of the Empire and from that point we can say that the Roman Empire basically formally adopted Greek Culture and Language with overwhelming ethnically Greeks as its citizens and as thus the Roman culture became identical and insepable with Greek culture. Again the ethnically Greeks citizens called the selfs Romans their language Romaic and their state was the *Empire of the Romans* and the only difference it had from the age of Augustus and Constantine was that it had only one large nationallity instead of many nationalities the empire had before. 6. One thing we must say is that the Medevial Roman Empire wasn't a Greek empire like the Hellenistic empires of the Ptolemys and the Seleucids it was the part of the Roman Empire that was Hellenized instead of Latinized and slowly found itself having ethnic Greeks as the majority of its citizens and as a result became part of Greek History and Heritage. Last but not least, the Greeks keep calling them selfs Ρωμαίοι(Romans) up until the 20th century and the Greeks that are now in Turkey are not called Yunan(greeks) but Rum(romans) by the Turkish state.

@alexandrostheodorou8387

3 жыл бұрын

Im willing to argue Heraclius was the last Roman Emperor. After the muslim conquests the empire was broken and became a Greek Kingdom Centered around Anatolia. Because they held Constantinople they had a link to the former Empire.

@Georgios1821

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexandrostheodorou8387 No. The Roman Empire didn't end at Heraclius. It's that the only Romans that survived were mostly Greeks that doesn't mean it wasnt an Empire. The Empire still had minorities of Armenians and Slavs up until 1204. The last Roman Emperor was Constantine XI in 1453. E the Greeks are the heirs of Medevial Rome because we were the last Roman's that fell.

@flamos44

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexandrostheodorou8387 lol no up to at least constaintne V in both west and east their was only one roman emperor it was the refusal by pope to recognize Irene as empress that caused the split. Furthermore it is also true that Theodoric returned the western roman imperial standards to constantople and nominally both he and odoacer before himpayed homage to the emperor in constantinople even if they were defacto independent, what this means is that officially when the western roman state fell because its standards and symbols were transferred to the east that meant that the Eastern Roman empire was now just the roman empire since the western standards were in the possession of the eastenr emperor making the eastern emperor the sole emperor of the roman empire. Even after the split between the Pope/HRE and Rome the Romans were still the roman empire, the only time where you can say their is space to assert that the roman empire ended was with the fall of constaintinople to crusaders and the change of the roman empire to a homogenous city state rather than the multiethnic empire it was before.

@GrecoByzantine1821

2 жыл бұрын

Congrats George, best comment ever about the reasons why Eastern Roman Empire was in reality a Hellenic Empire! 🙏✌️😄

@halflifeger4179

2 жыл бұрын

What in the fuck is this

Great video. I always try to leave the historian's preferred narrative out of my consideration of the facts at hand when researching history. Too often are the revered institutions invested in a specific narrative of history.

When you started that food list I thought it would never end! Feels like the ancient byzantine nobleman had a better diet than me!

@bellatordei3440

Жыл бұрын

This is only the tip of the iceberg 🤭

(Hopefully 2021 won’t be as shit as 2020) i’m so glad to had found this channel!! You deserve like a 1000,000,000 subs and even more!!

@der110

2 жыл бұрын

2022 incoming 🤣

Interesting and informative video as always！Looking forwards to Byzantium/Roman daily life in high middle ages. ： ）

@EasternRomanHistory

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you did. There should be three more parts to the series.

@Valkyrie_Yukikaze

3 жыл бұрын

@@EasternRomanHistory That sound brilliant! Can't wait for the video that yet to come.

Great! 💜 I wish to hear more about daily lives of later periods

I loved your video on Majorian, and that's how I came to love him. This is also great! I might have to watch more.

Great video, keep up the good work👍

Hearing that they had forks sure is something considering that places like England didn't have them until two centuries after the empires fall Also wait no more door mice?

@histguy101

3 жыл бұрын

They may have known of forks but preferred not to use them. There's a story about the Byzantine princess Theophanu who was married off to Otto II, and the German court was very bothered by the fact that she bathed daily, was literate, and ate with a fork. So they must have ate with something different than a fork.

@jonathanredacted3245

3 жыл бұрын

@@histguy101 presumably the left hand

@majorbowie776

3 жыл бұрын

Rip door mice

@jonathanredacted3245

3 жыл бұрын

@@majorbowie776 actually not rip since they aren't being eaten anymore :p

@ezzovonachalm7534

3 жыл бұрын

Jonat Catterina de' Medici was credited to have introduced the FORK at the french court ! So Europeans had forgotten that the East Romans had used it a tausend years before.

Thanks for the upload. Peace

Great video👍👍👍thank you for the great videos on your chanel keep up the good work.

Very informative, thank you

Muito bom!!! Ótimo vídeo!!! Parabéns!!!!

Great video. I've always been amused by learning about small details of common folks lives in ancient and middle ages. During those times, history was invariably focused soleley on aristocracy and rulers and it was only in modern times that art shifted a bit to focus on the ordinary man. Thus, it's hard to find reliable contemporary sources to trace ordinary people's everyday life in times like the early middle ages. But it is that which makes it tge more intriguing. The addition of aoe2 music in the background also adds lot for history enthusiasts gamers like myself. Bari comes to mind in regard of the history presented in this video.

Great work man ERE is my favorite empire

Don’t think I didn’t catch that AOE2 music in the background lol, great touch

Absolutely love the age of empires 2 music!

You'd be surprised but... A LOT still remains unchanged. The baptism ceremony remains the same even to this day in orthodox countries, except it's done a bit later, not 1 week after birth. Instead of hymns you have the godfather saying prayers during the ceremony. Also, upon returning the child to his household, before giving them to the mother saying "I've taken a pagan and brought a christian". The household matriarchy is still present albeit barely in eastern european countries. Communism destroyed this aspect of rural society somewhat (ironic). Reckon the middle east has kept these cutoms better. Hahaha, yep! Sill practiced. The coming with musicians to the brides house. Rice instead of petals. Godparents still there, crowns too.

@novaterra973

2 жыл бұрын

I assume the later date baptism is due to the lowered infant mortality?

@bellatordei3440

Жыл бұрын

@@novaterra973 or for a health reasons

Vampire Dark Ages campaign "Constantinople by Night" brought you here.

I love this stuff - do you have any recommened reading for any and all things Byzantium? Particularly the 6th century, but anything will do.

I just started this video, but I have to wonder, did Byzantines have an equivalent to castles?

@radu-andreinitu3961

3 жыл бұрын

They did not have castles like medieval, feudal Europe. They had forts and the important, border cities in the Roman/Byzantine empire were fortified and had walls.

@A3onYT

3 жыл бұрын

​@@radu-andreinitu3961 In fact there are many medieval castles remaining today in Greece. See for yourself: www.kastra.eu/home__en.php

@aokiaoki4238

3 жыл бұрын

Of course they had, the were called Kastron. Byzantium fell in the 15th century, Candia for example in the 17th century etc

@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014

3 жыл бұрын

@@aokiaoki4238 indeed, if i remember there was a city called: Paleokastron (Old Castle) I think its in Medieval 2 Total War, Crusade DLC i saw it

@davidcirovic8620

7 ай бұрын

they had lots of castles, but they were state run for the border defense, not like in europe were a castle was tied to its feudal owner

such great content ... and only 720p =(

Heraclius was only half Armenian, his mother was Epiphania, a Cappadocian Greek woman. Leontius was from Isauria, but still a Greek speaker.

*POV: I am a Byzantine kid in Damascus, 634 AD.* Me: **just fricking sleep** Some Rashidun dudes entering Damascus: ALLAHU AKBAAAAAARRRR!!!!!!!

@goro2867

2 жыл бұрын

Comedian

@the_bathroom

2 жыл бұрын

I find you everywhere rexory

@RexoryByzaboo

2 жыл бұрын

@@the_bathroom Indeed, I am omnipresent.

➡　1:00 The empire's territorial area at this time was the smallest before 1204. Despite this, it withstood major attacks from the Umayyads, the Abbasids, and the Avars. Looking at its history, we can really understand the importance of her Anatolian region in the empire. Considering this, the loss of Anatolia after the defeat at Manzikert in 1071 was the determining factor in the weakening of the empire. It is true that on the surface, the empire of the 12th century was superior to the empire of the 8th century in terms of area and population, but in terms of national power relative to surrounding powers and international significance, the empire of the 8th century was clearly superior.　🤔🤔

garum sounds so exciting until you realize it's ancient Worcestershire Sauce

@halflifeger4179

2 жыл бұрын

It's actually more like an East Asian fish sauce

where da information credits at?? I am tryna use this in my research paper! :)

@EasternRomanHistory

2 жыл бұрын

23:47-23:57

@waseemq1522

2 жыл бұрын

@@EasternRomanHistory ma maan!

Oof, God, can you imagine. You're just done with the madness of getting married, you're trying to sleep it off, and all your mates run into the room and wake you up with unholy, probably hungover, caterwauling.

Anatolians spoke Greek as their only language, so they should not be listed as a separate group. Whatever they were before is irrelevant. Isaurian was the last non-Greek language spoken and it went extinct in the 6th century. We don't exclude the Hispanic and Gallic Romans from the Latin sphere, bc they were Celtiberians and Gauls before their Romanization, respectively.

@Michael_the_Drunkard

Жыл бұрын

The only Syrians were refugees from the Rashidun Caliphate, who settled in Asia Minor, bc Syria had been lost to the Arabs. We got a similar situations with the Armenians. Roman Armenia (west Armenia) and independent Armenia (east Armenia) had been lost as well, hence many of them settled in Cappadocia.

@Michael_the_Drunkard

Жыл бұрын

Slavs were mainly POWs, who were settled in primarily in Asia Minor as peasants and slaves. That's the origin of the term slave.

@Michael_the_Drunkard

Жыл бұрын

Africans? I presume, you mean Berber Romans. That was until 698. Btw, you forgot Roman Italians.

But how do you personally define Byzantine dark ages, when did it start? When reliable sources end in your opinion? 602,610,642?

@alanpennie8013

Ай бұрын

There are effectively no extant Byzantine sources for the period 630 - 815 and history needs to be pieced together from foreign writings and (rather unreliable) ninth century Byzantine ones.

Flies weren't eaten because they were seen as dirty? Is there a people in history that did eat flies?

Digenes Akritas's father converted to Christianity, that's why the marriage was permitted. The pagan Slavs were assimilated, which included baptism.

The map is wrong. Greece was never truly lost because the slavs that invaded didn't create states there they just settled there.Leo was an Isaurian Greek and there is no such thing as anatolians in the 8th century the DNA samples shows us that by 720AD that people that lived in Anatolia from the Aegean sea to Cappadocia were Greek.

@Athena-oh3uj

3 жыл бұрын

I don't get your point. If an area is not being governed by the Imperial Authorities then how are they within the Empire?

@Georgios1821

3 жыл бұрын

@@Athena-oh3uj Firstly, the Empire never lost the coastline,secondly the slavs didn't create states the just settled the area and as thus were dependent to the Empire because the empire surrounded them so they were basically vassals of the Empire and one by one were reclaimed. I suggest to you this video to see what I mean. m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/pZ-WusGEl5Ouf8o.html

@Athena-oh3uj

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t think some sort of map video that doesn’t cite sources quite adds to your argument.

@Michael_the_Drunkard

3 жыл бұрын

Anatolians are the Greeks living in Asia Minor

@JB-kn2zh

3 жыл бұрын

There were native Anatolian languages and ethnic groups in addition to the Greeks, who were also native there. I think Leo the Isaurian was Greek and just came from the Isaurian region, but the emperor Zeno was an Isaurian who spoke the Isaurian language. There were also ancient Anatolian languages like Hittite and Luwian, etc. one of which is probably what Isaurian evolved from. So there were probably at least some scattered speakers of these dialects at the time.

If only taxes were still paid In nomismata

bannerlord music?

Nomismata... you cound just call them coins

What are the sources for this video?

Thank you is so ROMANIAN life then? Christian Orthodox

No ice cream?????

@MarathonMann

9 ай бұрын

he said sometimes sorbet

I think Byzantium christians are very much closer to the true and original teaching of jesus christ compared to the roman christians...

The beginning of the video sounds like a dark age to me. I believe the only reason modern people are now reluctant to call the fall of the Roman empire a dark age, is a combination of postmodernism, and nervousness about our own civilizations future.

some of these "humane" isaurian laws sound ridiculous from a modern perspective xd

Speaking as a gay man, I don't see how the Byzantine law regarding homosexuals is at all humane. I guess it's better than being tortured for life, but it's barbarous either way.

@EasternRomanHistory

2 жыл бұрын

The Isaurian laws were heavily inspired by Old Testament law and updated the Justinian Code. Some of these laws a certainly draconian but one can appreciate the steps being taken, however, incremental they are at improving upon the OT and JC to make them better in practical usage in the eight and ninth centuries when the Ecolga was enforced.

First!!!

Roman Empire !!! not Byzantine Empire (created only by Historians) 🙏

Okay,did slaves build that place

stop saying paroikoi it hurts my ears. Spell it pariki, stressed at a. At the time your video is about, oi=i and declares plural. Under the many mistakes of the video this is the worst. You are making a video about byzantines so first of all try to respect their language.

@halflifeger4179

2 жыл бұрын

Paroikoi is literally correct though???

@urielseuthes7484

2 жыл бұрын

@@halflifeger4179 Parikoi is written and pariki is spoken. -oi is plural -i

@halflifeger4179

2 жыл бұрын

@@urielseuthes7484 I have no clue what you‘re on about. Maybe you should take your own advice and learn some Greek? The ENDING syllable -oi is plural yes, the masculine Nominative singular form is -os, ie. PAROIKOS, with PAROIKOI being the Nominative plural. If you need it explained: παρ-/παρα = from/at/beside, and οἶκος = household, so a πάροικος is a person at or of the household. “πάρικι/πάρικοι“ makes no sense and isn‘t a word, if you try to to put it into Google it will ask you if you meant πάροικοι

@urielseuthes7484

2 жыл бұрын

@@halflifeger4179 i dont know what your beef is. I said it is written parikoi and spoken pariki. Greek letters: -ος/οι = παρικος, παρικοι & οικος οικοι. latin letters: -os/oi = parikos, parikoi & oikos oikoi. WRITTEN ->parikos, parikoi & oikos, oikoi. SPOKEN -> parikos, pariki & ikos, iki. You have no clue about what you are talking do you? Now if you think that parikoi is not a word i can not help you. Google it than you will learn something new. Try to understand what you read bigmouth.

There are several homosexual accounts

@MarathonMann

9 ай бұрын

which ones?