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0:22 Fall of the Republic
5:13 The Julio-Claudians
12:14 Nero
13:29 Year of the Four Emperors
18:43 The Flavians
20:18 The Five Good Emperors
25:00 Commodus
26:30 Year of the Five Emperors
28:12 The Severans
31:22 Crisis of the Third Century
36:09 The Tetrarchy
45:04 Constantine
49:19 Late Antiquity
53:59 Barbarians at the Gates
59:37 No One Understands Jesus
1:04:36 The Fall of the West
1:11:00 Justinian
1:25:43 The Rise of Islam
1:33:18 A Very Chill 50 Years
1:40:02 No One Understands Pictures of Jesus
1:42:46 Irene of Athens
1:52:49 Basil the Hottie
2:03:15 Basil the Bulgar Slayer
2:15:01 The Great Schism
2:20:13 The Worst Dynasty *So Far*
2:24:27 The First Crusade
2:39:40 The Worst Dynasty
2:47:17 The Zombie Empire
2:49:39 The Palaiologos
3:02:38 The Final Act
There's still room to come with me on a trip to Japan, March 1-7 2026! https://trovatrip.com/trip/asia/japan/japan-with-jack-rackam-mar-2026
1:18 They were heroes, don't @ me
Hi, new listener here and I just wanted to say I found this channel specifically because I was looking for long-form content on history. Your videos are awesome, appreciate what you do 👍
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Ik it’s a long vid but would it be possible to put chapters in next time
This was really good to watch😊 I'll probably watch it more then once. You made history very fun to listen to
Pretty impressive "dumpster fire" lasting 1000+ years as worlds first super power, unlevelled advancements in multiple areas, laying down what we would call the western civilization etc..Id bet the US is more of a dumpster fire when they fall from super power status in less than 300 years..jus sayin..
I love ya Jack, but in a video discussing the Roman Emperors, its frustrating how many of these emperors you fail to, even once, mention by name. By the time you completely neglected three significant emperors (though perhaps it shouldn't matter if they were or were not significant)… But I digress…
When, in the first 20 minutes of a 3+ hour video you failed to even speak the names of Domitian, Septimius Severus and Caracalla, I lost interest and moved on. Take a page from Dovahhatty or Overly-Sarcastic Productions who did abridged version of the entire history of Rome and STILL managed to at least speak the name of every single key player in their history… I mean it takes even less time to say "Domitian" then it does to say "another third and final emperor from the Flavian dynasty."
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Nestorius being called a heretic for being right (and is still remembered as so). It’s like Arius 2.0.
Perfectly titled chapter “no one understands Jesus”
This should be called history of the Roman emperors than empire