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Very first sentence the narrator says "The mid 1900's", when clearly he should have said "The mid 900's". I mean, I'm not usually one to criticize, but the very first sentence? I'm surprised that got past the final edit.

I can't believe I didn't notice that lol

Yeah, that shit caught me off guard.

Yeah between Lekapenos and the phokass clan it was an interesting time for the empire.. 😂

That seems to get brought up every time the family is mentioned! (Though "Lacktestes" would have technically been a more accurate name for a eunuch.) The name was coincidental, though. His family had usurped the throne when Emperor Basil II's grandfather, Emperor Constantine VII, was a child. It was a strange usurpation, as they left Constantine nominally in power as a co-Emperor instead of deposing him and murdering/mutilating him the way most usurpers did. They did make him marry into their family, though.

@@ravager2-636Even weirder is my families actual name is Lackapenos. We Anglised it, so those pesky anglo saxons wouldn't exile us in the 16/17th century. We hid it so well, I only found it after years/decades of research into my family tree in 2010.

Like Pius? Could you enlighten me about what he did reform exactly?

@@luciusdomitiusaurelianus5334 Limiting the power of the rich ,tried to limit the influence and power of the rich and the aristocracy. Implementation of tax measures ,both emperors implemented tax measures that affected the rich, with the aim of redistributing wealth and strengthening the state. Tackling corruption and abuse of power, they have tried to tackle corruption and abuse of power within their governments by promoting fair and transparent policies.

@luciusvorenus264 it's sad you know, as an Italian I'd wish to have someone like them

@luciusvorenus264 thank you very much for the informations.

Financial prudence like Anastasius I

One can also say he was the reason they lost everything over the next 200

​​@@fictionles that's indirectly one way of putting it. Never had a worthy successor after his reign for decades. The general feeling among the Byzantine people is that the prosperity of the empire was connected with the continuity of the Macedonian dynasty. Unlike Aurelian during the Crisis of the Third Century in the West, he had a worthy successor in Emperor Probus to continue his legacy after his death while Basil's successors failed to maintain the stability of the Byzantine Empire until Alexios I's reign. Which temporarily reestablish Byzantium from it's decline but by then the damage had already been done in Anatolia by decades of religious rigor from the Sassnids and other Muslim entities. Not to mention the internal wars from Greece and parts of the Empire.

@@fictionles huh?

@@SolidAvenger1290He actively forbade the daughters of his brother from marrying, basically ending his bloodline and ensuring that nobody had any legitimacy after him. All that he achieved was lost because of it.

​@@SandourasBasil's conquest of Bulgaria is what allowed the empire to survive Manzikert if i am being honest

Yeah man. Basil really loved the Empire and it's citizens

Could argue he was being a good Christian I.e give your life to service.

Completely agree!

Him not having children was a black mark on his reign and led to really bad consequences down the line

The Eastern Roman Empire is always frowned upon, due to the influence of Catholicism and the HRE (Germans) who basically dictated western policy for centuries, not to mention the Venetians effectively destroying the Empire in 1204. Basil (Basileios in actual Greek) literally means "King-like" and it's still a common name among Greeks due to St Basil as well as this chad of an emperor. Also Voulgaroctonos (Bulgar-slayer in greek) sounds unbelievably bad-ass.

@@spiritusIRATUS---I can't argue with that. Thanks for responding.

@@brokenbridge6316 I mean, beyond that... The Byzantine empire's long term influence on western European culture and history is at best negligible. We've got our own history that's shaped the societies we live in today. There isn't much of a reason for kids to be taught about the Byzantine empire in western European schools, and unless you get into it on your own spare time - which is mostly unlikely, since there isn't the same kind of media marketing for the Byzantine empire as, say the Sengoku Jidai in Japan - it's unlikely you're ever exposed to it. Further: I'm very much interested in the Byzantine empire, but Basil II in particular has this internet fanclub fixating disproportionately on how many Bulgars he killed/maimed above all other aspects of his reign, something that's... rather distasteful. Certainly he was probably little worse than plenty of other rulers of his time, but the fact that most people keen to talk about him are so keen on that particular part of his rule probably poisons him a bit in the eyes of other people who might be interested in say, his fiscal policies or other parts of his conquests.

It's some of the most fascinating history there is. Not to mention vital to the development of Western Europe, as the Empire kept many would-be invaders from the East out of Western Europe during much of the medieval period by being a richer, closer target.

@@DamonNomad82also because they were taking the money from them all ;)

So you’re telling me a Eunuch named “Lackapenis” called up a guy named “Ballsac Pokeass” for help? This entire era was a meme.

@@DamonNomad82 The west repaid the favor by destroying any strenght they had to resist the turks, damning the balkans to ceturies of slavery.

Roman*

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You are kind

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Damn

He was Roman

​@@TonyFontaine1988and Greek too. Greece is culturally the most similar modern state to the Late Roman Empire

@@TonyFontaine1988 well greeks were romans at the time

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@@abdullaalfazza3736Belisario was never emperor

What is "based"?

*Roman emperor

i had to immediately pause lol

I had to repeat the line countless times

I had to repeat the same line countless times

@@johnchen3599me to lol so this took place in the 1850s then lol

Ikr

sadly aurelian only ruled for 5 years rather then 50

@@ilect1690 short and sweet I say.

Ck3

Who hates Greeks ?

Which year ?

@@kristijangrgic9841 1042

@@kristijangrgic9841 1042

Well they are historical regions coming from old Roman provinces of Achaia and Macedonia. Altough later kingdoms did not followed old province borders idea of old Roman historical regions remained.