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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








I have never laughed for three hours… Until now. 🤣🤣🤣
25:40 Pertinax was they guy who might have been a good emperor after Commodus, but got offed due to unpaid wages. as his name suggest his reforms could have been pertinent, but being impatient he launched them all at once. while everyone hated Commodus, they loved the status his corrupt reign had given them.
Titus and Pertinax are two of the "what if" emperors.
3:09:24
Cue: Baka Mitai
Dame da ne, dame yo, dame na no yo
Anta ga, suki de, suki sugite
Dore dake, tsuyoi osake demo
Yugamanai, omoide ga, baka mitai
So glad you didn’t chicken out after the fall of Rome 🤍
2:05:23 amazing vid sir, but why draw the mosque plates in haghia sophia before it was made a mosque? Keep it up i loce you and your humour
These last lines hit hard, man.
I get the same energy from Theoden in the Helm's deep and from Aragorn's "Then I will die as one of them!" there
I thought this was going to be a compilation…but omg this is a masterpiece.
in regards to that bit about Empress Zoe and the male equivalent of a Mistress, the word is Boytoy.
1:42:59
23:42 and thus the stagnation began.