If you ever get the chance you can tell Robin I only started listening to his podcast after I watched your first videos in this series.

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

Will do - when we started this collaboration we both agreed it was about making the history more accessible to everyone - the fact that you did this is precisely what we hoped to accomplish!

@cepopeye

11 ай бұрын

@@FlashPointHx been listening to Robin since he was a tv reviewer lol epic

Pefect timing for my 12 hour night shift !

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

Nice!

Your Videos are so incredible! Justian is among the giants of the East!

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

Agree!

@lisaa.4667

Жыл бұрын

I agree.

This series has been fantastic! You did justice to history by any standard - we are blessed considering these insights were, until recently, a once-in-a-lifetime or even once-in-a-millennia opportunity to know the full picture of. You have incidentally made the case that a historian like Procopius is arguably as rare a figure as Justinian and Belisarius, which only adds to the debt we should owe to you.

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

Really happy that you liked it Paul

Blessed day

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

Yes sir!

Was on planes all day, hit the hotel bed and back to story time and learning! GREAT way to relax the brain for me vs airports and rental car agreements! Thanks gang!

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

Hey so happy I could help with your relaxation phase

Your videos are awesome. You should have so many more subscribers. Thank you.

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

@skyhappy

Жыл бұрын

I remember when he had 2k subscribers. I was thinking the same thing then. good to see this channel growing

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

@@skyhappy appreciate the dedication Sab

Justinian is an interesting contradiction in so many ways. He sought to reconquer Italy, Africa and the lost Western Roman provinces, in turn exposing the wealthier Eastern ones to invasion from Persia as a result. He sought to violently unify the Church, yet forced many sects and pagans to side with Barbarian kings as a result. He sought to make Constantinople the greatest city in the world, yet neglected the defense of the Danube frontier, allowing steppe raiders to establish on the cities doorstep. Great energy and intelligence, genius visions of conquest and glory, yet lack of careful consolidation and overextending the army and empire, to the point it could not sustain. Such an interesting duality of a man.

Fantastic work y’all! Loved the series!

0:00: 😔 The Byzantine Empire under Justinian faced numerous challenges including the plague, invasions, and revolts. 10:21: 🔍 Theodora's influence and the depiction of her in Ravenna, the failed attempts to regain control of Italy, the Slavic invasion in Dalmatia, ongoing conflicts with the Lakhmid and Ghassanid Arabs, and the restoration of Byzantine protection in Lazica. 28:46: 📚 Justinian strategically selects commanders to lead the Empire's armies, successfully driving out Slavic Raiders and extending the truce with Persia. 31:03: 🏰 Italy is finally brought back into the Byzantine Empire after years of warfare and devastation. 41:02: 🌍 Justinian achieves success in Italy, Spain, and peace with Persia, but faces theological division. 51:36: 🌍 Justinian's rule faced discontent and challenges including natural disasters, the return of the plague, and threats from barbarian invasions. 1:01:26: 📜 Justinian's reign was marked by various domestic troubles and efforts to balance trade with the East and maintain parity with the Persians. 1:16:00: 👑 Justinian was a capable emperor but his pursuit of personal beliefs and desires ultimately did not benefit the empire. 1:22:37: 📚 Justinian's reign had a significant impact on the Byzantine world, marking the transition from late Antiquity to the medieval Byzantine age. Recap by Tammy AI

Great video and analysis as always! Apart from the plague, there is also another important economic and security factor which influenced the Roman future in the time of Justinian - The Earthquakes. Starting from 526-528 in Antiochia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/526_Antioch_earthquake) and continuing to the Great Earthquake in Constantinoupoli in 557 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/557_Constantinople_earthquake). The heart of the Empire was in ruins which encouraged the invaders in the following years in both Anatolia and the Balkans. The depopulation of the frontier provinces caused by inner migrations toward the more secure big cities (like the story of Justin himself), plague and foreign invasions left large areas in the Northern Balkans and Eastern Anatolia defenseless. The major mistake of Justinian was his firm religious policy against the Paganism. He tried to unify the Romans of course, but this policy had an unexpected boomerang effect and cause many loyal pagan Roman citizens of Greek and Latin stock and many regions in Greece, Italy and Hispania to prefer to live under the rule of pagan or religious tolerant barbarian warlords, rather than to remain under Roman authority. This effect on its turn caused the shrink of the recruitment and support base among the Romans themselves and became the major reason for the barbarization of the Roman military. As a result of the shrinking of the Roman {Greek and Latin} support base, Anatolia took the place of the main Roman powerbase peninsula, instead of Italia or the Balkans. But why the Graeco-Latin Romans of Anatolia didn't follow the examples of Greece or Italia and prefer the religiously oppressive authority of Constantinoupoli even after the forcible Christianization of more then 70,000 pagan Greeks there, by Justinian authorities? The main reason behind this was that the eastern invaders (Persian and later Arabs) of Anatolia were less tolerant toward everything Roman - Greek or Latin and Anatolia was much more ethnically diverse with large Non-Roman (Armenian, Isavrian, Assyrian, etc.) population than the other Great Roman peninsulas of the time. The Non-Roman Anatolian population followed its own religious and cultural path, which even tried to replace the Cristian Roman path with the introduction of the Iconoclasm few centuries later and caused the rift between the Greek and Latin Christianity which teared apart the Roman state itself several centuries later, during the Forth Crusade.

Top-notch quality historical content! Tyfys!

Definitely improved my morning! Great work as always!

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Fantastic as usual! Loving this series!

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Sam!

Amazing work ❤❤

Incredible documentary!

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

Enjoyed immensely, thanks so much for a more detailed look at this period of the Eastern Empire's history than most.

@FlashPointHx

11 ай бұрын

You're so welcome!

Man I really wish I found your channel sooner yes I love all the bigger history Creators and they have the advantage of being bigger with all those perks such as Armchair, Invicta,Kings And Generals, Oversimplified,simple history, See U in History, and obviously a lot of other guys lol cant list them all now but I been watching them for years and I’m glad Epimetheus featured you on a video I watched not so long ago about Zama the epic showdown and recently I been just binging your channel after binging epimethus as I finished watching his Bronzeage era videos to Byzantium rise and fall now I’m watching this video after finishing your Reconquista series still got a ton more to binge after this video and I’m done with your Byzantine series

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

Happy that you liked my videos - those are some great channels that you mentioned

What does 5'6" need with 50' ceilings?...

Another world class video!!! You should see if you can work out a deal with Netflix at this stage man 🤣

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

What makes you think I haven't ;)

@ApocalypseRem

Жыл бұрын

@@FlashPointHx Let me know if you need me to lobby for you, I'll send them a passive-aggressive email "advising them" to bring you on board, otherwise ill continue to figure out ways to share my password with other people🤣

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

@@ApocalypseRem Hahhaha - you crack me up. Love your vid on the ME 262

@ApocalypseRem

Жыл бұрын

@@FlashPointHx Ahh man that has literally made my day. Being a fan of your work for many years and hearing you say that is not only surreal but also incredibly humbling at the same time. Thank you.

Thanks for your hard work FPH!

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

Hey you are so welcome K

BEAUTIFUL VIDEO

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Can't believe you don't have more subscribers! Try and collabing with Epic History TV, or History Marche!

Honestly in the Picture of Theodora You Show , She Has a 5 o'clock Shadow 😂

@FlashPointHx

11 ай бұрын

She was that manly of a woman =)

@mistaman4638

11 ай бұрын

@@FlashPointHx Bravo My Friend 😂.

As my grandmother used to put it regarding very old individuals: the step and the fart. Roman Emperors: promote that guy to supreme military command!

When he spent so much money to conquer far away lands the, Balcans when the recruits most of his troops where left to the barbarians raiders

This is amazing. Justinian is great but I am waiting for fall of Granada. I will not be satisfied until I see it with my eyes.

Ευχαριστούμε!

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks so much!!

Justinian had a major flaw that many great men and women have: his ego. If he let Belisarius do his thing, things would have been much different. For presumably better or worse.

@FlashPointHx

3 ай бұрын

But whose to say that Belisarius wouldn't have betrayed him at some point?

👍👍👍

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

Your triple thumbs up is always a welcome site!!

1:27:00

the idea of the vicar of Christ was a creation after the schism when it was just the church the patriarch of rome was only known as first among equals

Huzzah huzzah

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

Woot!!

@d.c.8828

Жыл бұрын

NIKA!

🐅 🐅

There is so much inspiring material in Eastern Roman history for miniseries or movies, but instead they give us a black cleopatra or idiot germanic tribes supposedly outsmarting Germanicus.

if you want to make arabic copy of ur channel hire me i have full team of video editors script writers and voice over team

@FlashPointHx

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate that Mohammad - but don’t have the budget for that

@MohammedBadran-dk9qn

Жыл бұрын

@@FlashPointHx dont pay me until channel succeed and make high views i will make 1st few videos for free

@Artessnow

Жыл бұрын

@@FlashPointHx go for it, this needs to be presented in all languages. Mohammad seems dedicated enough.

He was a very important historical figure but he was far from great. He was a zealot who did not create peace at home or abroad. There is a reason they called these the beginning of the dark ages.