Eastern Roman Army: Tactics, Structure, Weapons, Recruitment, Navy, Soldiers

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[@atrides7]

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[@ΡωμαϊκόνΠύρ]

2 hours of medieval ROMAN history? Just beautiful. This channel rocks.

[@TheRezro]

I just hope that he mention that Justinian destroyed two groups of Latin speaking Christian "Barbarians". And he actually was the reason why city of Rome was destroyed, as it was preserved by Ostrogoths.

[@nickrabbitson1821]

Writing something in capital letters doesn’t make it valid. Even more, writing what the audience wants to hear (I see you got a like from K&G) doesn’t make your argument stronger. Italy and Greece have already agreed upon their national narrative and separated their heritage accordingly. A few opinions here and there (even from actual Greeks like prof.Anthony Kaldelis) will not change that. Enjoy the shadows of KZbin and other social media. «Εις πολλά έτη, δέσποτα!»

[@ΓάιοςἸούλιοςΚαῖσαρ]

@@nickrabbitson1821 Neither Italy nor Greece have a right to dictate to the rest of the world what Eastern Rome is. These are contemporary states driven by modern political agendas which often alter history for the sake of their own geopolitical goals. The simplest conclusion that we laymen can make about Rome's eastern continuation is that its main ingredients are 1. its staunch reliance on Roman political, infrastructural and military institutions, 2. an orientation towards speaking Greek and Greek literature, and 3. Judeo-Christianity, that greatly influenced byzantine-roman music, thinking and religion. There were also other elements, but the three mightiest factors were Rome, Greece and Israel. Therefore, assertions that Eastern Rome is a Greek empire, are not only wrong but should be circumspect as soon as they are made because they cloud objective analyses of what Eastern Rome is. And I say that as a Greek, too

[@nickrabbitson1821]

@@ΓάιοςἸούλιοςΚαῖσαρ I think my previous comment is a good enough answer. Nothing further to add. 😘

[@ΓάιοςἸούλιοςΚαῖσαρ]

@@nickrabbitson1821 Hello, again. I guess what I am trying to say is that both of you two are somewhat right and also somewhat wrong. What am I trying to say is that Eastern Rome is what it is, as cliche as that may sound. It's neither fully Greek, nor fully Roman (as in the sense of the old, classical Italic Rome), but it's the evolution of the Roman Empire that took a totally unexpected direction. Eastern Rome is Roman, Greek and Judeo-Christian. Anything else that either of you can say about a totally Greek or totally Roman society only sees things in black and white.

[@Stallion-EC]

I didn't even notice the length. Making a good work morning start

[@td2456]

That’s what she said?

[@Stallion-EC]

@@td2456 heh

[@JazKaz-x5f]

EMPEROR CONSTANTINE was born in Serbia in NIS! 28 EAST ROMAN rulers were born in SERBIA! But WEST VATICAN CATHOLIC history wants to DELETE Serbia from that history because Serbia is ORTHODOX!

[@timjobs3634]

Amazing content ! The Eastern Roman Empire is one of the most underated empires ever. I'm so glad you guys dedicate so much time to it !

[@dla_915]

bro never heard of the byzaboos

[@internetperson8224]

In the top two Roman empires in my book for sure

[@cichlid9626]

@@dla_915 byzas was a greek king of Megara near athens and they migrated to Bosporus in ancient times later the empire take his name Byzantium from byzas started as a child of the roman empire and slowly passed in greek hands with the start of the arab wars actually they spoke latin and greek later only greek

[@sidp5381]

@@PutlerHuyIo I mean the Russians have a direct connection to it, and also the title of the Russian emperors is very similar to the emperor of Byzantium. They both use imperator as well as autocrat.

[@athanasiusdicia117]

@@cichlid9626 The Empire never took the name Byzantium. That was a 16th century invention.

[@patrickcurrie7440]

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Ditto. Born in 85 and of similar mind.

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I share the same feeling! 🤝

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Can even calll History channel still, History Channel? On what is on that now.

[@Sephiroth144]

@@kjellduteweert9262 Yes; they have the name, even if they lost the spirit of it like many other channels before them (MTV and SciFi come to mind)

[@zion470]

what he said 😊

[@MalteseWonderdog1429]

It is just truly astounding how the Romans could find new ways of adapting to challenging situations over the course of 2200 years. Sure, their civilization and the state itself changed heavily after thousands of years, but a distinct, tangible Roman state existed and transferred successfully from one part of the Mediterranean to another and lasted until the invention of gun powder.

[@TheRezro]

Or specifically it still exist. Even if people deny it. After 3'th century crisis, with decree of Caracalla every free person in Empire become a Roman citizen. This was the reason why power shift toward Greek speaking regions later known as Byzantine. But thing is that Franks were invited on territory of Empire and heavily Latinized. And despite initial clashes with Goths and Wandals. This same process did happen. What is true reason why those tribes move so fast. They moved fully legally. Both Ostrogoths and Wandals preserved local Latin populations, what take hot after Justynian destroyed them. Justinian was also one who actually destroyed city of Rome, preserved by Ostrogoths. In fact those "barbaric" Latin speaking Christian Foederati, recognized Emperor until 8'th century and Charlemagne (I remind that Papal State IS Byzantine Province). Holly Roman Empire (as part of Roman Franks) was in fact recognized by Byzantium (Otton III was from there) and after its fall title was transferred to Spain and end in hands of Habsburgs. When Napoleon sized HRE he actually declared himself as Emperor of Rome. European Union is still build on Roman heritage and law.

[@kadaltokek3953]

I think Roman Empire lasted until 1920's when Ottoman Empire was defunct, no? because Ottoman Empire conqueres Byzantine so they have "Right of Conquest", religion is the problem? Oh yee Queen of United Kingdom also claim as Maharani of India or Empress of India, despite UK being christian and India being Hindu/Buddha

[@JazKaz-x5f]

EMPEROR CONSTANTINE was born in Serbia in NIS! 28 EAST ROMAN rulers were born in SERBIA! But WEST VATICAN CATHOLIC history wants to DELETE Serbia from that history because Serbia is ORTHODOX!

[@knightalmu5587]

2 hours of showing every detail why a country survived for centuries its just the best thing I could ask for please make this type of videos for other civilisations

[@Normal_Boii]

The Romans always do what they do best; adapting to a situation

[@harryellis910]

This and civil wars!

[@dazingamaine4318]

really? more like propaganda and domination. prototype nayis.

[@Darthwgamer]

@@dazingamaine4318 So all empires of history.

[@JazKaz-x5f]

EMPEROR CONSTANTINE was born in Serbia in NIS! 28 EAST ROMAN rulers were born in SERBIA! But WEST VATICAN CATHOLIC history wants to DELETE Serbia from that history because Serbia is ORTHODOX!

[@Bashchavush]

The Byzantine Army adopted the composite bow-equipped mounted archers in their force structure. Byzantine sources mention the dexterity of the Seljuk Turks with composite bows. In the eleventh century, the Seljuks overran most of Anatolia, which the Byzantines had been able to defend against the Arabs from the seventh century onwards. Procopius refers to the presence of mounted archers in Belisarius's force, which enabled the Byzantine Army to overcome the Ostrogoths in Italy. In the war against the Vandals, Belisarius used auxiliary Hunnic horse archers against Vandal lancers. From the sixth century onwardsthe Romans used composite Hunnic bows. These bows were made of wood with sinew and horn glued together. The maximum range of such a bow was 300 metres and the effective range against an armoured target was 100 metres. Crossbowmen became common in the Byzantine Army only during the Crusades under Frankish influence.

[@brandonquezada9523]

Horse archers were also used by the western Roman Empire at some point

[@samiman5606]

The bizantine empire got defeated many times by the fathimd caliphate berbers

[@athiocordatus9572]

@@samiman5606 Fatimids and the ERE had very limited conflict compared to the Umayyads and the Abbasid wars against Anatolia. It would be strange to use a wording as "got defeated many times" in this case.

[@ArmyRangerSJ]

​@@athiocordatus9572precisely, many great empires bled out due to more than one force to put it simply, decisive wars of subjugation didn't ALWAYS happen so gloriously

[@nelly411]

@@samiman5606 "It says here in this history book that luckily, the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds?"

[@Duececoupe]

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[@KAI-bk6vb]

Medieval Roman history is making a comeback.

[@cichlid9626]

Actually start as roman empire and slowly become greek it mostly a greek mediaval history

[@KAI-bk6vb]

@@cichlid9626 There is a kernel of truth to what you are saying. Surely the history of the Greek nation is interwoven with the Roman Empire. But the medieval Roman Empire neither becomes a Greek state, nor is it singularly Greek history.

[@nickrabbitson1821]

@@KAI-bk6vb it is also virtually impossible to consider it Roman after the great schism. Rome was alive, independent and…to a certain extent an adversary of this Greek-speaking state. In fact, the ERE is the epitome of the phrase “Rome conquered Greece by force and Greece conquered Rome by culture”.

[@ΡωμανόςΔ́Διογένης-θ6δ]

@@nickrabbitson1821 Impossible only to those who don't know an inkling about history. The importance that Rome the city itself held for Roman national identity was merely symbolic after Constantine, the so called Great. Yes, the that Constantine who built "New Rome" on old Byzantium. The reality is that Old Rome was not even the capital any more. A basic tenet of post 3rd century Roman imperial history is that wherever the Roman emperor stayed, "there was Rome" as the Romans liked to say. In the west, Ravenna and Milan were the Imperial capitals. In the East, Nicaea and Constantinople were the nominal capitals. Rome retained its symbolic meaning well into the 8th to 9th century AD. The Romans of the East continued to honor Old Rome well into the 13th century, but it was obvious to all by then that the Empire was slowly dying.

[@nickrabbitson1821]

@@ΡωμανόςΔ́Διογένης-θ6δ no it is impossible because it goes against common sense. By mixing terminologies we can call everyone Roman, British, American, etc. The Roman tribe, part of the modern Italian nation stayed in Rome. They didn’t get exterminated, or vanished by mixing with Germans. The “greek world” didn’t vanish either when they got roman citizenship. Then the western part fell and at some point around 800-900 AD 90% of the “roman” territory was historically greek, inhabited by mostly Greeks (together with Armenians and Slavs) and were speaking….wait for it. Greek. Already by 1000AD scholars from ERE are making a connection with the Hellenic past. Michael Psellos is one that quickly comes to mind.

[@alexandrep8320]

Merci ! I just start the video but I'm especially fan of the Eastern Roman Empire. Art is already awesome. Speaker is awesome. Music is awesome. So here is a tip.

[@JazKaz-x5f]

EMPEROR CONSTANTINE was born in Serbia in NIS! 28 EAST ROMAN rulers were born in SERBIA! But WEST VATICAN CATHOLIC history wants to DELETE Serbia from that history because Serbia is ORTHODOX!

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The internet it’s often terrible but sometimes you get amazing stuff like this for free

[@MindfulHistoricalInsights]

"The level of research and attention to detail is impressive. You've made history feel accessible and exciting. Keep up the fantastic work!"

[@avgvstvscaesar7834]

A very good, detailed video how the Roman military evolved over the millennia.

[@JazKaz-x5f]

EMPEROR CONSTANTINE was born in Serbia in NIS! 28 EAST ROMAN rulers were born in SERBIA! But WEST VATICAN CATHOLIC history wants to DELETE Serbia from that history because Serbia is ORTHODOX!

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Ck3 must be bout to drop a trailer for their next dlc focus on the eastern Romans

[@Darthwgamer]

You weren't wrong

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Kings and Generals back again with another high quality documentary!

[@terry7907]

Your fluency in medieval Greek is impressive.

[@davidthor4405]

Maybe I misremember, but I recall hearing that the -oi at the end of words like strategoi, kataphraktoi, etc is pronounced - ii (kataphraktoi -> kataphraktii, etc)?

[@attilaszabo2160]

​@@davidthor4405- ii is the latin roman, - oi is the greek roman

[@Mr.KaganbYaltrk]

Please do more videos about Eastern Romans

[@VinnieG-]

West is Best!

[@StefanoUrsella]

​@@VinnieG-yes but I find the struggle to survive of the East more fascinating

[@StefanoUrsella]

​@@VinnieG-East is Beast

[@VinnieG-]

@@StefanoUrsella You mean like the rise of Rome, fighting against the etruscuns, latins, samnites, greeks, barbarians, and on and on

[@Kalashnikov-m5r]

You got done with the Etruscans and the only thing left was Carthage and a divided to four pieces Greece which sometimes supported you because they started to dislike the Macedonias (Yes we the Greeks are know for our wars between ourselves😅) so you basically had to defeat tow and a half enemies from which one was the real threat , this isn't superior to what was happening in the East as you can see in the video the Easter Romans had to face Vandals, Ostrogoth, Visigoth,Bulgarians,Slavs,Arabs,Persians, Seljuk Turks, Ottomans and Latins​@@VinnieG-

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[@davidhughes8357]

After many years of studying Roman military history ( Western and Eastern) your documentaries have become invaluable to me for both factual detail and visualization !! Thank you so much as usual!!!

[@MauricedelTaco]

Eastern Roman history is so rich. ty for the video

[@wisephilosopher]

Kings and Generals is great about depicting history accurately without any bias. Kudos to this channel and keep it coming with new Byzantine empire videos.

[@imperialstormtrooper1054]

Great video as always. Coincidently I am writing a paper right now about Eastern Roman military innovations. This will help out a a lot.

[@HayaiDemoN]

Medieval Greek history is one of my favourites. Especially from Kings and Generals, the narration as well as the animation are highly addictive👏

[@MagisterMilitumBelisarius5365]

It's not Greek. It's the Roman Empire, the Roman state and Constantinopolis is Nova Roma, the new capital of the Romans. Since it's not an empire created by Greeks, or even exclusively Greek, it was never a Greek empire.

[@HayaiDemoN]

@@MagisterMilitumBelisarius5365 it's Greek. Roman citizenship but Greek ethnicity. Especially during the later era. West(Latins) called it empire of the Greeks, Varangians called them Greece etc. Of course many territories were multicultural, but the majority of its citizens and the core of the empire was consisted by Greeks simply because the east part of the empire was expanded in places where Greeks lived for hundreds of years if not thousands. Why else would they adopt Greek as official language? Simple as that. It's like claiming that the Holy Roman Empire was a Roman empire and not German. You can name it as you like, but facts are facts.

[@MagisterMilitumBelisarius5365]

@@HayaiDemoN No, it wasn't Greek, despite whatever mental gymnastics you make up to conclude that. The ethnicity of most of the emperors, generals and soldiers was not Greek. What the western Europeans called it (for political reasons) also does not matter. They were also not Latins btw. The eastern half of the Roman Empire was speaking Greek as a common language since Alexander the Great, but this does not mean that the Romans of the East were ethnically Greek. Today over 1 billion people speak English as a common language, but we are not all ethnically English. Your logic does not make sense at all.

[@HayaiDemoN]

@@MagisterMilitumBelisarius5365 just check a map during the reign of Basil the II for example. The area that the empire is expanded are mostly on Greek territories/cities. But since you claim it's not Greek then who where the inhabitants of western Anatolia or mainland Greece? Italians/Romans? Aliens? What do you suggest?? Greek was spoken in Anatolia/Asia Minor and the Lebanon/Israel coastline long before Alexander the Great conquered this territories. Google is your friend, just search a map of ancient greek colonization. The Byzantine army sure had many mercenaries but that doesn't prove anything you claim. And the majority of the Byzantine Emperors were Greek or half Greek. Where do you get your facts, just do some research before you respond.

[@MagisterMilitumBelisarius5365]

@@HayaiDemoN You are wrong. During Basil II's reign, the Roman Empire consisted of many different lands. The Empire controlled parts of Syria, Armenia, vast parts of Asia Minor, Bulgaria, Serbia and parts of Italy. Greece was just a small part of it. A far cry from being an ethnically Greek nation-state. Asia Minor was not a Greek land. Check a map of ancient Anatolia to see who lived there. Phrygia, Isauria, Galatia and Cilicia were not ethnically Greek. Like we said, Greek was the common language since Alexander the Great, but that doesn't mean that the people living in the East were ethnically Greek or even considered themselves Greek. The early Christians were Jews who spoke Greek, like St. Paul of Tarsus. Is he Greek, too? Come on now.

[@ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΟΣΤΣΙΟΤΣΙΑΣ]

Thanks again for bringing to life a forgotten by many empire!

[@ForHelbrecht]

Amazing. I probably learned more from this than I ever will at uni. I've always loved military history (virtually every history book I've ever read has been about Roman, Medieval or Napoleonic warfare) and this channel brought it all to life in a truly amazing way. Thank you Kings and Generals!!!

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks for watching!

[@NoobToobJamarMemes]

I'm playing as the Byzantines on Civilizations VI right now. I've expanded past their traditional borders. I control all of Turkey and took over the city states there, crushed Poland, and now my empire stretches from the Mediterranean to the Baltic Sea. Eastern Orthodoxy is the prominent religion, with Catholicism coming in second. I think the ancient Byzantines would be proud 🥲

[@georgezachos7322]

Here we go again! 😮😊

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

"Public postal service", and that there, is a great example for how the Roman empire was a comprehensive large scale state, whilst most of its neighbours consisted of warlords and merchant cities. Imagine if it had survived, how different things would have been.

[@stefanolissi5561]

Fantastic content guys, the eastern roman empire never receives the love it deserves

[@coconutperson1985]

The transformation from heavy infantry to light, nomadic style horsemen of Byzantium reminds me of the transition known in Chinese history as 胡服骑射. Wuling king of Zhao modeled his army after northern barbarians during the warring states period, and became one of the strongest of the states. His nation became the only one to remotely challenge the Qin nation later on, though they were crushed under their boot eventually.

[@hydroac9387]

The visuals are simply amazing. They expertly supplement and illustrate the concepts and ideas. Well done!

[@tomriley5790]

It's a bit ironic to be listening to a the account of a 6th century military tactician berating people for being stuck in the past and encouraging people to focus on modern equipment and tactics. The evolution of Eastern Rome's miltiary from legoinaires to mounted horse archers was very impressive, it's a shame they weren't able to make the transition to gunpowder or they may have been able to resist the Otomans. Amazing that the walls of Constantiople/istambul lasted so long! It's interesting that the Stratgicon is so much less known than Sun Tzu's book.

[@thesittingacheroraptor7565]

This video just makes wish for a total-war style game where you can customize your troops down to the training and equipment, like can you imagine a pike/shield/gun combo unit? Or a Lance/Grenade slingers combo Heavy Cavalry?

[@stanbatakarata6081]

Bulgarian Heavy Cavalery is 7-10 century best Hevy cavalery in world 100% this.Full iron plate Armory long spiers 4 meters 35 cantumetes edge sabers 90cantimeters and reflex bow .Kalashniov in Era.

[@madmarvshighwaywarrior2870]

You can have a game where armament would be customizable but on less scale like that of Mount and Blade (around 300 Men in battle) as compared to thousands of Men in total war.

[@johanneshalomoan29]

Saya berterima kasih kepada channel ini karena telah membuat sebuah narasi video tentang perkembangan Militer Kekaisaran Byzantium, dan saya pun Jelas sungguh menyukai apa yang channel ini jelaskan melalui video ini.

[@toufegariouogios]

The longest lived Empire in history,more than 1000 years!!

[@kristijangrgic9841]

from 753 BC to 1452 AD

[@MagisterMilitumBelisarius5365]

Yep, the Roman Empire.

[@toufegariouogios]

@@MagisterMilitumBelisarius5365 It was the Byzantine Empire,not the Roman.

[@InHocSignoVinces5987]

@@toufegariouogios Facepalm...dude, there was no Byzantine Empire. It was the Roman Empire.

[@athanasiusdicia117]

@@toufegariouogios It was Roman Empire till the very last moment. There's no imperial, Ecclesiastical or scholar document of its days , naming it as Byzantine.

[@ericponce8740]

Maurice was an excellent general. When he became emperor, the era of the emperors staying in Constantinople and sitting on the throne and not taking charge of the army, was over.

[@pikasnoop6552]

Well, it only took a thousand years, but the Roman empire finally values scouting.

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

Oh that is brilliant.

[@JornNummerdor]

This is my favourite youtube channel

[@flavio-viana-gomide]

I'm not a specialist, but 1.000 years for an Empire is quite a long time. The Ottomans lasted for 600 years. What I can see with my layman eyes is that the empire was placed in the crossroads. It means it need to deal with enemies from east and west. If I were a Bizantine emperor, I would choose to give up some land either from the east or the west in order to create a barrier between empires.

[@yurigagarin9765]

The Byzantines continued giving up land from all directions for centuries, up until they were reduced to a single city.

[@gm2407]

Their main issue was political instability. The military was strong until the 14th century, even after catastrophies. But look how weak the Basilios position was to usurpations, and mutinies from 1st century AD till the end. The Palleologie seem to have lasted the longest due to the civil war being two dynasts and inexplicably the successes of the penultimate emperor who maintained the state through diplomacy for decades.

[@flavio-viana-gomide]

​@@gm2407, Thank you.

[@stanbatakarata6081]

​@gm2407 😂 strong ! 😂joke for Era .Little frends East Roman Empire lost 70 % for all Battle vs Bulgarian Empire Bulgaria is only big 7 century oponent in Europa for East Roman Empire

[@gm2407]

@@stanbatakarata6081 At the start of the 7th century Rome was facing Persia, then Islamic expansion. Slavs had entered the Balkans. Trying to recover back to the Danube was a long term battle for them, it seems to have been a secondary priority until the late Macedonian period in the 10th and 11th centuries. But throughout much of the period the military was strong enough to control much of the land it maintained even if it was a slow decline. The worst disaster Manzikert requiring an effective rebuild. There were multiple leadership failures in that. But yes Bulgaria clearly has a good record against them and the Romans seemingly only getting a limited success period. Still absorbed the first Empire.

[@RubberToeYT]

Amazing artwork and video as always

[@f3wbs]

I've watched all of the individual videos already because I'm trying to master the Byzantines in Medieval 2 and Attila (1212AD). Still I'm glad to have one video as a reference point; it makes life much easier and notes shorter.

[@madmarvshighwaywarrior2870]

You should try the Stainless Steel mod for M2TW

[@f3wbs]

I’m thinking about it. Apparently the Byzantines are really good in it.

[@legioromanaxvii7644]

Roman history is so awesome!

[@mattpelter]

I love the CK2 music usage.

[@MrKapouetsky]

Great vid. One comment though. Found it curious to see left handed fighter @1:01:11 for example. Anyway, GREAT job at synthetising such an obscure subject for us westerner. TY very much

[@johnmitchell803]

This makes the empire in mount and blade 2 a lot more understandable. Now I'm going to go and make my legions.

[@liambeirowski4680]

Wow guys, awesome video! Love y'all and thank you for this!

[@fenecrusader]

Great Video the eastern Roman Empire is always so interesting

[@Resistmediasupression]

Love this era thanks for contributing to history itself by your detailed videos

[@normtrooper4392]

The eastern roman empire, my beloved.

[@LazyLifeIFreak]

This long format video is excellent for needle work or building stuff in minecraft!

[@AaronDarkus]

As Thanos said: *"I´m going to enjoy this as you cannot imagine"*

[@Myoron]

Total Warhammer 3 started me on a bit of a melee and medieval tactics kick, and having bought Mount and Blade Bannerlord recently this is very cool to see where some of the inspiration for the armies came from in that game.

[@cichlid9626]

with the start of the arab byzantine wars the child of the roman empire slowly passed in greek hands many of the units in army renamed with greek language just like protostates means in greek those who stand 1st in battle and many more in renamed units and orders in soldiers all had mostly greek names

[@GloryToTheUnitedStates6037]

I'm not sure what the goal is in highlighting the Greek hands part. The main language doesn't change the status of the Roman Empire as Roman. Language doesn't define nationality, it's just the means by which people agree to convey thoughts for communication. The main language of the Roman civilization was not only Latin, it was also Greek. Greek was like a second language to the Romans. The only thing that changes after Heraclius is that Greek decisively becomes the primary language while Latin slowly withers away. To be fair, Latin wasn't disregarded or anything extreme like that. After Dalmatia, Illyria and Beirut were taken by the Slavs and Arabs, the rest of the Empire's Latin-speakers were greatly outnumbered by those speaking Greek. Latin was still spoken in Thessalonica and Constantinople until 900 AD, but it wasn't common enough to survive. It was a wise and very tactical decision for the state to rely more heavily on Greek, because Latin wasn't spoken as much any more.

[@cichlid9626]

@@GloryToTheUnitedStates6037 the ultimate question as many romans said at last rome conquere greece or greece conquere rome.the population does not dissapear sicily the greek penninsula macedonia and thrace populated by 80%from greeks so natturally they gain the control of the empire in the 1st 300 years mostly of them they prefer themselfes as romans and not as greeks when the rome fall to barbarians but after 300 years with the start of the arab wars the empire passes in greek hands slowly in the army all units take greek names all orders in army replaced from latin to greek and with the start of the arab wars the empire were mostly in greek hands the fact that you comfuse in that romans and greeks had similar coulture and they had the same gods and 2 languages spoken in the empire in asia minor the language was greek and latin was not speak at all usually when you write somethink its the most common way you speak

[@locomotivebearingdown5381]

Roman Empire, 27 BC - 1453 AD Hail Caesar

[@TheRezro]

Papal State and San Marino still exist.

[@dimitarbojkov7893]

Nicely done. It's amazing how much effort went into this video. Just a small correction, though. Cyril and Methodius created Glagolitsa, not the Cyrillic alphabet. The Cyrillic alphabet was made by their students who named it after Cyril in order to honour him. These students were eventually employed by the Bulgarian knyaz, Boris, after they were expelled from Great Moravia.

[@thatcherrytree6928]

Crazy content, love you guys :)

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

I was under the impression that they had forgotten the purpose on the underwater naval ram. That some scholar suggested that the ancients had them to protect against rocks beneath the waterline.

[@JohnnyJay81]

Oh sweet, so happy for this.

[@nath-hh2ff]

Love Roman history from any time period east or west

[@historyguard-ww2]

Simply impressive ! So many informations and details !! Great effort and work ! Thank you !

[@lordsotelo44_]

Now this is my type of video

[@tylermorrison420]

Great content as always

[@Uzair_Of_Babylon465]

Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁😀

[@Sophocles13]

Yes! Thank you for new content!!!

[@jievejustinleyes1048]

Bro your thumbnails looked so great... Where do you edit it? What app?

[@HistoryHaty]

Thank you for this video. The Byzantine Empire is my favorite medieval kingdom. As someone who love learning about military history, I love knowing about the army and weapons. Amazing how the terror of the trenchs of World War I, the flame thrower, originated from the wonder weapon of the Byzantine navy ships. Greek fire terrorized enemy ships but the flame thrower the trenchs. Can you also make a video either about WWI German stormtroopers or WWII British SAS. Thanks again👍👍🫡❤️

[@stanbatakarata6081]

No kingdom. Empirie

[@HistoryHaty]

@@stanbatakarata6081 Oh sorry. It was ruled by a emperor.

[@stanbatakarata6081]

@HistoryHaty no problem bro.

[@HistoryHaty]

@@stanbatakarata6081 👍👍👍👍

[@stanbatakarata6081]

@@HistoryHaty thanks for your good 👍 comments. Good day budy

[@richardtabor8686]

Oh wow. This will be watched several times. Ty for the content.

[@jam3scruz859]

Nice topic on the under appreciated Eastern Empire that endured a few hundred years more to keep the Legacy of Rome alive.

[@robbabcock_]

Wow! What an epic video!

[@jozzieokes3422]

Keep up the amazing content!

[@43drak]

Enjoyed this presentation, thank you for making this.

[@FiveChannelW]

Very interesting content!

[@Nasir3623]

Excellent video.

[@ebikeslapunta9294]

2 hour video went by in a flash

[@keithbrown7685]

It seems to me, as the times changed for the Byzantines, their formations got more rag-tag, in spite of the high flown Greek and Latin names given to different types of soldiers and their weapons. Somehow the organization and the groupings became adhoc units thrown together, especially during the last few centuries of the empire. I was impressed with the research you guys did, and the pursuit of giving correct names and descriptions. But where the Romans themselves were concerned, everything got less like professional, and more like (peasant mobs we through together because we didn't know anymore what else to do to hang on to empire and defend ourselves in our decline). I'm not saying this was how it was, but how it looked to me as I watched. There was some kind of sub-text that spoke of disintegration and even desperation, by the end.

[@tabush142]

I highly recommend everyone to take a listen to the History of Byzantium podcast by Robin Pierson if you have not yet! He does an excellent job covering all things Eastern Rome from the fall of Rome working towards the fall in 1453. Eastern Roman History is one of the most fascinating subjects out there

[@afternoobtea914]

Just had to say I loved this video!

[@georginhoweahvic3977]

Fantastic!

[@gm2407]

I suspect that the pronaoi has a similar structure to things we see in Doomsday book in England. It is effectively similar to having the 'honour' of certain assets. Also the Oikeois are effectively Housekarls. Let us remember that Scandinavians had been highly active in Anglo Saxon lands, Normandy and Byzantine mercenaries including Verangians. Also a large group of disenfranchised Anglo Saxons left England post 1066. Granted Alexios ruled from the 1080s, however Pronaoi seems a similar system for enfranchising followers lacking in assets who happen already to be there.

[@b_rob3318]

Amazing content per usual. Gentlemen and scholars

[@stevenmugnaini2938]

is that where musical chairs came from? every so often, when the trumpet sounds, the odd man standing around or left scrambling for cover,,, is out

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

Military forces at the crossroads of different cultures tend to develop the more interesting and nuanced doctrines and unit compositions.

[@JohnMinehan-lx9ts]

I wrote a paper in the MIOAC on the Siege of Constantinople as one of the first modern combined arms battles . . . .

[@stanbatakarata6081]

Aha true in Cresy is first in Europa.But Constantinopol is Best Artilery in middle age.

[@woutervandenbosch8161]

Nice one, to me personaly way to specific and lengthy in describing all the different weapons used and armor worn but that's just me. I liked it very much anyway. Specialy the fact that they hold on for so long that they even saw the arival of gun powder and the use of canons. I don't think may people realise that when they think of Romans. (If you could stil call them that, yes it used to be part of it but became an different empire on it's own) I personaly doubt it. Loads of people probably think about the times of Christ. Romans with swords and shields. Not of Romans with canons. Thank you Kings and Generals! 👍

[@MrGopiii]

great vid bro

[@MrGopiii]

ahhaha actually is one of the bests jajajaja, have to watch it again

[@mikloskiss3475]

Hungarian Orban was put in jail by the Emperor after refused his offer and the Turkish helped him to escape. That is why he made the gun for the Ottomans.

[@Kimmerios-l5u]

I didn't know about that.One thing is sure.He was killed when his own gun exploded.

[@Carlo-zk2cy]

Eastern Roman History is so fascinating They restored some of the western territories in 6th century Then declined in 7th century with the early Muslim expansion. They hold on their remaining territory and again recovered by 10th century culminating to its medieval peak in 1025 AD. Declined again by 1071 with the arrival of the Turks. Then recovered partially again under the Komnenos dynasty (1081-1180) Sack by the Crusaders in 1204, they recaptured their capital and re-establish the empire by 1261.

[@davidthor4405]

Just stumbled over this while making dinner. My fried eggs will surely draw much knowledge from this!

[@Raskolnikov987]

Fascinating

[@ozgurd5920]

recently i was researching how timariot system in ottomans are almost same with pronoia system. stratiotis are same with sipahis in ottomans. found out also janniseries lookalike of pretorians. we see a lot of ottoman systems in our mainstream history but almost none about eastern rome. and how we take almost everything from romans to ottoman empire. now 2 hours of video about late romans.... i am excited to watch this. keep up amazing works mate.

[@SacClass650]

The Ottomans adopted some elements of the Byzantines, yes.

[@ozgurd5920]

@@SacClass650 yeah via candar beylik(which family coming from seljuk ruling system) there are some elements taken from seljuks. but if you close names and read history, i dont think we can differentiate byzantine and ottoman so much.

[@SacClass650]

@@ozgurd5920 We can through observing reality, the Byzantines were the Byzantines; the Ottomans, the Ottomans. That the latter adopted elements of the former, does not negate this. They were different metaphysical communities; though to your point, perhaps not as much as the Ottomans like to make out.

[@ozgurd5920]

@@SacClass650 i doubt they were different communities.

[@SacClass650]

@@ozgurd5920 But they literally were, they were entirely different metaphysical communities.

[@ryantinloy4965]

Some of my favorites episodes deal with the Byzantine Empire, caliphates and turkish peoples like the Cumans. Maybe one day I'll get to see an episode on the Pechenegs. 😃

[@1998topornik]

Another excellent documentary!

[@madmarvshighwaywarrior2870]

1:23:02 it is not "amulgavars" but Almogavars, from the Arabic word "Al-mughabir" meaning raider. Also Arabic-derived words tend to begin with the "al" syllable. Wish this video also showed the Frankish and Germanic mercenaries of the Eastern Roman Empire.

[@undertaker1147]

Perfect. I shall watch this while forming the Roman Empire as the byzantines

[@anselmdanker9519]

Great presentation on byzantium 😊

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks!

[@Nick-hi9gx]

The rhomphaia seems to be something of a catch-all for several centuries of weapons that were similar to the falx. Some were more curved than others, but that is true of the falx as well. The curvature on the rhomphaia often started in a different part of the blade, and at a different angle to most falx, but there was variation in the few examples that exist, and the depictions. They are kind of like a the many Japanese nagamaki without much curve, but with the blade sharpened on the other side.

[@MarcusAgrippa390]

11:47 Damn... I read that as "Prostate infantry"

[@gm2407]

I hear the enemy found them a pain in the backside.

[@aaronjackman4037]

excellent video.