Go to curiositystream.thld.co/flashpoint_0622b and use the code FLASHPOINT to save 25% off today, that's only $14.99 a year. Thanks to Curiosity Stream for sponsoring today's video! Check out that video on Napoleon! Ok lovely people - here it is! 4 Hours of Justinian all in one spot! If you loved this content then share it on social media and let that special someone know what they are missing out on!

Justinian's statue being melted down to make a cannon means he finally made it to a battlefield.

*Fun fact:* Emperor Justinian appears in the 1968 german-italian film "The Last Roman" (which portrays the re-conquest of Rome by the Eastern Empire after the death of Theodoric), being played by the legendary Orson Wells. It's an extremely underrated film, to be honest

Being in Istanbul now gave me surreal feeling, with hustle and bustle of everyday life I have taken this city for granted and it just dawned on me how ancient this city is and how rich of a history it has, I have probably been to many of the places those ancient people lived. I don't know, I am just rumbling because I feel like I can't put this feeling into adequate words, the best I could say is that it is like a time travel.

I've listened to this about 8 times already, and still going, I feel smarter and smarter every time I hear it 😀 I love the story telling

As a listener of the Robin’s podcast for years. It is amazing to see the art of video has such high quality and makes Robin’s storytelling even greater…….

Living in this ancient city I feel blessed everyday to pass by these living monuments to human achievements. It’s a lovely place to live or simply visit. Thank you for your video

Thank you for this precious gift.

I enjoy the incorporation of visuals and music with concise narration. This is one of the easiest historical documentaries to take in.

This channel is out of the ordinary. So enthralling! So cohesive and carefully put together! The maker of this channel is a master of many fields. Thank you.

How legendary your content may further get?! I get more and more surprised each time with the quality and extent!

Wow. Absolutely fantastic. Thank you for such a wonderfully done work.

I don’t have enough good words to describe how thankful I am for this documentary. The time, dedication, effort put into making this deserves the highest level gratitude. Thank you!!!

Love the combined episodes!. Keep up the great work!

I have to interrupt the watching of this incredible series to post my appreciation for your work and very interesting narration. Your storytelling gift is really at the highest level and I thank you for everything you do here. May you have all the success you can get for this and other things you do, it is well merited.

You are an AMAZING story teller. Thank you for all your work.

Among the Best podcasts ever ! What à narration what an animation ... Good job 👏

Thanks! Keep up the great work! Love the long-form documentaries!

Amazing video, it was my first time learning about the Justinian Code and the basis for feudalism in Europe stemming from Justinian's rule, what a guy.

This is one great, great documentary telling us the history of the Byzantium error!!! Thank you! Amazing how history repeats!

This is excellent. Outstanding work!

thank you! was waiting for your work 🤗

Dude been with you from the start Love your channel!!🤗

Thank you for the excellent narration! Do you happen to know where a map with Justinian's fortifications in Europe can be found? Thank you in advance!

How haven't I found your channel before yesterday? Started with your 3 hrs video - now - working through everything else you've done. (History of Britania) I work while listening and the clear, audio is great - I cannot stand channels that change their voice to whisper and give themselves more gravitas and lower, fake, tones. Natural, clear, just enough emphasis to be used as such and great video to be able to glance at and understand the entire context.

Thank you so much for this excellent, illuminating video, for I have learned a lot from its precious contents! However, would you object to providing a link to the "previous episode," the existence of which was mentioned in the body of this production? Thanks in advance!

I noticed you used the old transformers sound effect when showing the castles. That was the noise when the transformers transformed . Good documentary as well. Did you guys think nobody would pick up on that iconic American 🇺🇸 show from the 80,s

Thank you. Well done examination of Process.

Wow, History Flash, that is a massive work. I pressed the like button before watching, but I'm gonna have to do it in installments.

i love these storyes there the best !!!

excellent documentary, thank you !!

I've just found your channel, and it's amazing! You've reignited my love of history, and I've subscribed by way of thanks.

This is excellent. Thank you for posting this on UKposts! I had been listening to the podcast, but I vastly prefer this long-form version. Thanks for having offered bite-size and party-size options! Please keep up your history work, as long as you feel able. It’s a huge gift and much appreciated!

This was absolutely phenomenal! Thank you for all of the hard work and research that went into this masterpiece of a documentary!

There are several references to previous episodes. Where are they? I thought this collection would have truly started at Episode 1 as suggested.

Enjoying the maps with the names of the "characters" as well as just places.

Odessa its not in Bulgaria and Macedonia is not a separate country from Greece but a part o Greece.

Time to enjoy this again!

Amazing content

hard to argue with the quality and content... the eastern romans were so fascinating...

You guys at flashpoint history are awsome

The part of the map that details the distribution of peoples north of the Danube is grossly inaccurate, the Proto-Bulgars would've still resided in what is known as "Old Great Bulgaria", whereas the Avars would arrive in Europe only two decades later at the behest of the Roman emperor Tiberius who had invited them as Rome's Foederati against the Slavs and the Kutrigurs. During the 6th and 7th centuries, the most numerous and the most dangerous enemies to the ERE at the Danube were the Slavs - the Sclavenes and the Antes. Menander Protector: "(...) About the fourth year of the reign of Caesar Tiberius Constantine, some hundred thousand Slavs broke into Thrace and pillaged that and many other regions. As Greece was being laid waste by the Slavs, with trouble liable to flare up anywhere, and as Tiberius had at his disposal by no means sufficient forces, he sent a delegation to the Khagan of the Avars. (...)"

Thank you for sharing this upload with us, I really enjoyed watching it, is the next part available to watch yet?

As a law student I kinda get excited when I hear you talk about law.

The information and presentation is fantastic, my only suggestion is to tone down and edit your use of music. It becomes a competition for the ears and brain. The information is so good that it does not need a constant pulsing of mostly irrelevant music. Trust the quality of your work to hold the listener.

This a treasure.

Thanks!

I have not watched the video through yet, but I can already tell it is a masterpiece. Great work as always my good Sir!

Glorious

I wanted to fall asleep to this video, but the guys microphone was so Bs, that I went back to Kings and generals

At around 25:33 theres a full screen of an amazingly, staggeringly beautiful, unbelievably detailed and realistic painting probably depicting Constantinople during Justinian's reign. My question to anyone who knows is...my God...who is the master painter. (You'll forgive my ignorance right?🥴🙄🧐💩🤔)

Justinian: "Now that Rome is ours again, nothing will stop us from restoring the Roman Empire to its full glory!" 😎 Plagues, Franks and Sassanid: *Awaken begins to play*

Nice background music and sound effects.

Theodoric ruled from Ravenna, not Rome. Chalcedon (/kælˈsiːdən/ or /ˈkælsɪdɒn/) - first letter "Chi" is pronounced as "K" in English, just like in Chi Rho ( /ˈkaɪ ˈroʊ/)

Justinian really was a godtier emperor. The concept of him "bankrupting" the empire has been discredited as anachronistic in the wake of the global event and black death, yet still the holdings held showing their rigger. His laws would he adopted by the Germans centuries later. Barbarosa uses his code as Roman law to show his legacy. A great man who changed the world and gave them a chance for the centuries ahead

1:05:25 '...but in terms of influence and authority, Theodora will outstrip them all; no pun intended..." 😁

I wouldnt mind to have a plague named after me 😅 great video btw extremely educational!

Great

what do you mean "previously on the history of Byzantium" This is the first part...

Thank you for putting the commercial at the beginning so I could skip it.

If only someone could have taken away your sound effects toy before making this.

Fascinating video about the Byzantine world. It makes visiting the region much more interesting. Turkey is a favorite place to visit and I've been wanting to learn more about the entire region.

Awsome

Oh I see now this is different one I first wrote in

What is the music you are using ? Please tell me.

When I told her it was love... I meant the videos that make up my Byzantine nights. The Purple kind.

Lol, she'll take ANY questions EXCEPT the ones we need answered.

Love history love UKposts

John of the Epehesus had written about that perion most honestly

I am a better person because of this "channel" and I thank you. Ironically living in an empire in its last breathe, best or worst of times but at least I get to experience a rare moment in history...

history repeat

What's with the annoying sound effects? Otherwise, a great video.

A small note. There was only one church prior to 1054, which was the schism of the Roman Catholic Church from the Church (now known as the Orthodox Church). @40:46 calling Hilderic a Catholic is therefore inaccurate.

One of those pictures had some letters that looked like an old elven from Lord of the Rings, really like the writing on the rings, I cant read it, there are few who can

Good moring a todos

Greek uses diacritical marks, and at the beginning of ἅγιος is the hard breathing mark which is pronounced like an H in English. So the church's name should be pronounced with an H sound at the beginning, HA-GEE-AH, and the G is a hard G sound too as in game or go, not soft as in gem. I didn't study years of Ancient Greek for nothing.

51:00 Kavad "had fallen madly in love with one his wives"... Wait, what?

"Previously...on the history of Byzantium." I don't understand. If this is Vol 1-3, is there an episode 0? Wouldn't 1 be first?

You know, I like Justin’s gumption and hustle, even if he was illiterate 😝

Rome lives on in many many ways today and hopefully one day she can be reborn again and yes coming from a descendent of celts etc but how can we deny Rome greatness.

Procopious was the first Redditor

Sittas and Chilbudius sound like parody names.

Did they change narrators?

Am I crazy or is the narrator borrowing the delivery of "Little" Alex DeLarge?

Erdogun doesn't want ortadox christians filming in Haggia Sophia. ..so he keeps inviting Catholics permission to film there....and you can imagine how upset local Christians are concerning there place of worship

It's crazy how much killing mankind has done because of religion or in the name of God

Excellent, Going with my byzantium/ Mosque/Hendosm Inspired Concrete Fountain I'm building 👍..

If the audio is still shit after the ad I’m be out

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“Secular” teaching does not mean “neutral” teaching and St. Justinian knew that. Too bad none of our current leaders are that wise

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And we think modern day politicians are vicious? That’s nothing compared to that lot.

chillbootius

Too many plugs for ads.

Justin

So as I was saying I can't see what I just wrote

Byzantium was colonized by the Greeks from Megara in 657 BC, and remained primarily Greek-speaking until its conquest by the Ottoman Empire in AD 1453. Also look up the ancient Anatolian Kingdom of Pontus, Greeks from the Black sea. A blend of Greek and Persian influences. Yes, Greek identity can challenge any Ukrainian Ethnic groups and prove Greeks were in the Black sea far before any Slavic ethnic group existed. What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over 200 years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the early first century BC, it included much of the southern, eastern, and northern littoral, becoming one of the most important Hellenistic dynasties founded before a successor of Alexander the Great. It also posed one of the greatest challenges to Roman imperial expansion in the East. Not until 63 BC, after many violent clashes, was Rome able to subjugate the kingdom and its last charismatic ruler Mithridates VI, who proved to be as formidable a foe to Rome as Hannibal. He has been called the greatest ruler of the Kingdom of Pontus. He cultivated an immunity to poisons by regularly ingesting sub-lethal doses; this practice, now called mithridatism, is named after him. After his death, he became known as Mithridates the Great. And after the full of Rome by the Germanic tribes and mercenaries from the far East of Asia that murdered most of the Romans and destroyed and looted Rome. Some Romans managed to flee to Byzantium and were saved by the Greek Royal Guards of Byzantium. The same Greek Royal Guards of Byzantium who trained the Anglo-Saxons from England, after they fled England from the Normans. The popes are not even Roman, that's why popes don't have last names. Poverty-stricken like one of many barbarians that invaded Europe was Odoacer, the Germanic king of the Torcilingi, and he self-proclaimed himself as the new Roman emperor and he embraced everything Roman and Greek. So the Roman state continued and some of its traditions were maintained, modern historians distinguish Byzantium from ancient Rome insofar as it was centred on Constantinople, oriented towards Greek rather than Latin culture and characterised by Orthodox Christianity. And Greek history records show that the Germanic tribe's were given the Netherlands and not Europe. Germanic peoples are nomadic like the Turks and British. There's an intelligent documentary in English to be made about Byzantium culture, and this isn't it. History is way more clear with a Hellenic classical education, and someone who speaks like a native Greek and not as an outsider/foreigner who learned Greek. Dionysius Pyrrhus requests the exclusive use of Hellene in his Cheiragogy: "Never desire to call yourselves Romans, but Hellenes, for the Romans from ancient Rome enslaved and destroyed Hellas." And George Gemistus Plethon pointed out to Constantine Palaeologus that the people he leads are "Hellenes, as their race and language and education testifies". Ducas Vatatzes, wrote in a letter to Pope Gregory IX about the wisdom that "rains upon the Hellenic nation". He maintained that the transfer of the imperial authority from Rome to Constantinople was national and not geographic, and therefore did not belong to the Latins occupying Constantinople: Constantine's heritage was passed on to the Hellenes, so he argued, and they alone were its inheritors and successors. His son, Theodore II Lascaris, was eager to project the name of the Greeks with true nationalistic zeal. He made it a point that "the Hellenic race looms over all other languages" and that "every kind of philosophy and form of knowledge is a discovery of Hellenes […]. What do you, O Rome, have to display?" No other small country can compare with Greece in terms of impact on human benefit. In the beginning... God created the Earth, and in the light blue waters, put a small ship to travel forever, in order not only to give birth but also to transfer great ideas all over the world ... He called that ship...HELLAS! The Greeks created it, the Germans copy it, and the English exploit it. The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. Herodotus

Was I the only one that heard Sit-assius and Chill-bootyius

Justinian the great Dardanius 🦅🇦🇱🦅

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: