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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
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Nice
2:04:00 you did a mistake of drawing muslim iconagrapy (or rather writings) in hagia sophia lol
I never understood why it wasn’t called the 8 Good Emperors because the Flavians were all B+ or better. I guess because it was how they ended?
I remember this
The Roman empire is a example of history repeating itself over and over ad infinitum
27:14 diddy?
Maybe Basil did love Michael, in his own twisted way
Truth be told, the Roman society was so robust it was able to up with all this bs and still nourish for 500 years (well maybe not the last 100)
13:22 Nero’s Little brother died from seizures, no know Roman poisons from the time could’ve killed him as fast as Tiberius (I think) claims, and most of the members of his court he killed were involved at least tacitly with a plot to murder him. The castration of his fourth wife/husband was customary at the time, and that wife/husband remarried as a wife twice in the century after he was deposed, and likely agreed with the castration. They weren’t sexually abused, they were married because of how similar to Nero’s second wife they looked.
The kicking your wife to death ‘story’ was almost certainly just that. It was a common literary trope in Greece for mad tyrant kings to kick their wives to death. His second wife almost certainly died from child birth.
27:50 nice try, Diddy 😏