What if Constantinople fell 500 years Earlier?

In 922 AD the powerful Bulgarian tsar Simeon sent a proposal for a joint siege on Constantinople to the the Fatimid caliph of Tunisia. The Romans
reacted quikly and ended this plan through diplomacy. In this Alternative History video I try to discover what would have happened if this siege of constantinople actually took place. The main purpouse of the video is to entertain and thus it SHOULDN'T be taken seriously. Enjoy!

[@historyrhymes1701]

Cringe

[@nobledictator2906]

lmao, we all cringe but you are a legend.

[@Bavaresco2008]

No

[@historyrhymes1701]

I know some of you guys complained that you have trouble understanding the audio on the video I did on the Monsignor Zs channel, so I tried to improve it. Let me know if this one was easier to understand. Also, I should note that I misplaced some cities on the map. They are not relevant to the video nonetheless...

[@zaidatimash713]

Awesome video, I really hope you do more of this kind of content in the future. And the audio was really well and better than last time, keep up the good work

[@megalodon3655]

Nice video Bulgarian empire mapping I really liked the videos and I really like your maps, it’s almost similar to Knowledgia and historymarche maps and nice video keep up the amazing work would you like some more alternate history ideas and real history ideas?

[@purpledevilr7463]

The sound is a bit rough on this video. It rises and dips in the opposite speakers (I’m using headphones) which creates a bit of a sickening affect.

[@shzarmai]

Very Interesting and cool video, Bulgarian Empire Mapping

[@ikengaspirit3063]

I would argue that the Normans would conquer Southern Italy from the Fatimids in Southern Italy, with the backing of the Pope and H.R.E. Why do you think they won't be able to? Like I am pretty sure a more central Italian power or maybe even the Pope would still invite them in.

[@aliyaser7698]

The Normans burned the churches, my friend

[@buenaventuralosgrandes9266]

In all fairness I think it's either the Normans or HRE itself. But I'd expect the latter one. HRE will be the one who conquered southern Italy with full backing of the pope. The result of it would be Capua and Speleto would be given to Papal State while the rest will be a member of HRE under dukedom/princedom and new republic will be formed. Definitely German culture will be more dominant in all Italy especially in southern Italy. Would be pretty interesting as a what if scenario

[@lancesvensson1703]

@@aliyaser7698 That's cause the pope didn't want another power in Italy.

[@tonit4233]

The narration is a lot better on this one

[@ascaro1885]

Bro I didn't visit your channel for a while, holy shit I remember when you had not even 1k subs, you have grown so much

[@taWay21]

This channel is going to blow up if you keep doing these alternate history videos. great work. Subbed.

[@sebastian5671]

Very interesting video, high quality for an alt history video, rarely see this amount of thought put into one. U earned a sub from me :)

[@tatarkhan33]

Please do a scenario if Samuel defeated Basil the second

[@dimitrijeilic1362]

I know I will sound a little biased but can you make a video about what would happen if Serbian empire conquered it

[@historyrhymes1701]

I will definitely do scenarios involving the Serbian empire in future. Not sure if it will be exactly "what if it conquered Constantinople" though

[@mekalio9159]

@@historyrhymes1701 Well they tried. But Tsar Dushan's dad died so he stopped conquering Thessaloniki.

[@ultimatewarrior733]

great video!

[@GarfieldRex]

Little channel, but huge in quality 💪👌

[@tatarkhan33]

You should do an alternative history traditional video of this

[@unclesam5230]

What if the Persians managed to take Constantinople in the Great Romano-Persian War or what is called the Final Persian war

[@micahistory]

bruh you watch him too?

[@unclesam5230]

@@micahistory yes and?

[@micahistory]

@@unclesam5230 that's awesome

[@NRooster]

👀

[@bonefex3000]

Nice one friend.

[@the_phen0m639]

I subbed.. i hope you got 100K subs in few months

[@andrefarfan4372]

Nice video

[@begemod1743]

Hmm. If a Bulgarian tribe harassed the Eastern Roman Empire, what would have happened if all five tribes had repulsed the Khazars or descended to the Danube and started to fight with the Romans ?

[@stkosta2482]

That has a very little chance of happening, but if all sons of Kubrat except Bayan died in a battle or were poisoned, all Bulgarian tribes would have descended upon the Balkans as it is the nearest place to their homeland, which is attacked by Khazars. Then we would probably see the proto-Bulgarian culture completely dominating the Slavic ones.

[@micahistory]

Great job I like these talking videos

[@yoghurtmaster1688]

Tbh it would be interesting if the fatimids manage to take rome in this timeline, would a crussade or some form of crussade be launched earlier

[@moonshadowsong]

Or the HRE will take the title of pope after Rome fall and add in rank of holy Roman empire and holy war again Muslim

[@ari3903]

Can you do an alt history video for north east Europe or Caucasus? That would be quite interesting.

[@dylangreen5590]

I wonder if the varangian guard would still form in this time line

[@SirMOCbuilder]

Hey, that's pretty good.

[@lotfigaming848]

I like the speaker's accent

[@Alinosi]

I really like the way you pronounce Arabic names

[@vichovichev4705]

Idea for a video: what if Bulgaria was a superpower (everything that could possibly go right for Bulgaria goes right) like they all came to the Balkan’s, no bad rulers, more success in the wars and more. I know that’s very hard and you can’t predict it perfectly but you can try. Do it with maps of course, it’s very interesting how big Bulgaria would be, it would be epic. There is a video called”what if Poland was a superpower” check it and good luck👌

[@rawka_7929]

If Bulgaria was a superpower it would be the only Balkan one ever closest we've gotten to that has been Byzantium later in its history and the Ottomans Now the Bulgarian Empire was a super power at its zenith but I believe you mean the 19th century or 20th WW1 WW2 that stuff well in that case it could be like the Austro Hungarian Empire a multi ethnic mess which won't be all that good

[@mohammadrezakhani2539]

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[@copiusgrimus6671]

6:37 why is Cairo in alexandria and wheres alexandria

[@laddfurk3947]

i like that accent

[@Augustus...]

my boy basil rolling in his grave

[@algerianchaouki5705]

0:41 Fatimids ruled their empire from Al-Mahdiyya not Tunis, the empire originated from the Kutama Berbers from nowadays Algeria...

[@hamzahammami22]

As always algerians trying to claim their neighbors history, the kutama berbers were simply mercenaries for the Fatimids, just like how the numidians are for hannibal, furthermore the land of the kutama tribe at the time were part of the Aghlabid Emirate of Ifriqiya therefore part of Tunisia

[@algerianchaouki5705]

@@hamzahammami22 Read again the comment, and what history am I stealing? An empire created by an Arab from Iran with the help of a people that inhabited the region since before Aghlabids?

[@hamzahammami22]

@@algerianchaouki5705 arabs from Iran ? The Fatimids are descendants of Fatima the daughter of the prophet Mohamed, but the origins of the ruling dynasty isn't that important, the capital and the center of the kingdom and/or empire is more important, and Tunisia was the center of the Fatimid caliphate for 70 years, and besides eastern Algeria was a core part of Tunisia until the ottomans era, it's not like the Kutama Berbers of that time would consider themselves algerian or from the central maghreb for that matter, they would've considered Ifriqiyian, and i have to apologize for coming out aggressively it's just that a lot of algerians like to claim the Fatimid caliphate as their own

[@sosopwsi829Jjw9]

Utopia.

[@tatarkhan33]

I like your videos but i disagree with a lot of things

[@rawka_7929]

I don't wanna come out as aggressive but can you just tell him how would you put this alternate history how would it play out? Again not trying to be aggressive sorry if it comes out that way

[@tatarkhan33]

@@rawka_7929 no you aren't aggressive actually i did in a separate comment i wrote that The krum dynasty would not ignore Bulgaria and would last longer

[@rawka_7929]

@@tatarkhan33 well guess that's the thing with History It could always go another route depends on who is the ruler as rulers are unique people So it could go the way you see it or the way he does

[@tatarkhan33]

@@rawka_7929 ok

[@aswinisivasankar5677]

Konstantinople will never fall

[@aswinisivasankar5677]

Until cannon were invented

[@vladimirgunnar7015]

Awzome

[@sheidkata]

Правете и на български език клипове!

[@thanosofthecommunistdruzhi9107]

eastern rome is good

[@Hugehugebighuge]

8:24 the sub Saharan faction? lmao i know u like mean the Berbers but sub Saharan = south of the Sahara : )

[@Alexander753.]

Kill me bro. 😭

[@rixter69]

is joke?

[@erani9042]

History of Azerbaijan ? ( Aq qoyunlu Qara qoyunlu Azerbaijani khanates )

[@nicocola284]

What if ottoman empire conquered Persia

[@walterusalbus]

Bulgaria is an honorary Muslim country it has lots of turks in it

[@rawka_7929]

So does the USA is it an honorary Muslim country too?

[@tatarkhan33]

By that logic Germany is a sultanate Bulgaria has a population of 8 million rughtly 600 thousand turks

[@nicocola284]

And France an emirate

[@sprc155]

He probably means Turkic but in Turkish there is no such word as Turkic because they are panTurkics. Turkic and Turk is not actually the same. Tbh countries like Kyrgyzstan Kazakhstan Uzbekistan are more Turkic than Turkey.

[@ivokantarski6220]

@@tatarkhan33 I wish we were 8m. Unfortunate times. Anyways in my opinion the Pechenegs or Cumans doing serious damage on Bulgarian land is beyond laughable. Their armies could probadly not win against Bulgar cavalty due to its experience and size let alone the best infantry in Europe aka the legions. Seems like this empire united doesnt really expand. Whole balkan could easily be taken and middle east will fall if 10l Bulgar light cavalry went to help the legions. The nomads there wouldnt be any better than us.