You spelled Montenegro wrong

As i understood it, the Imperial regalia was sent to Constantinople as it was said Rome no longer needed an Emperor, and this was on or about 476AD and therefore a perfectly acceptable date, is this wrong?.

Short answer. Roman Empire didn't fall! It was more that East and West Rome stop officially recognizing each other. But many countries of West Europe did see themselves as Roman. While Byzantium start seeing itself as Greek.

@@colinharbinson8284 After Odeocer, Theoderik sent imperial regalia to Constantinople to subjugate himself to the Emperor

@@colinharbinson8284I place it later than this video thanks

Interesting. - As my current belief is actually that about the same happened with Cicero and the Republic. 😉

The prose of tacitus is timeless. His histories should be required reading.

The context of that sentence is a Caledonian Chieftain talking to his troops before the Battle of Mons Graupius against Agricola. And it’s narrative prose.

It was a variety of factors

That's true, but that the aqueducts were not fixed was at least in part Justinian's fault. He did not send enough money to his governors in Italy to take care of vital infrastructure flaws. He also picked bad governors who didn't prioritize the right things.

A lot of earthquakes also maybe Italy is very sismic region?

That's also about the time the Roman Senate disappears from history, their last words being an endorsement of Phocas in I believe 603 AD.

I came here to also comment that 🙌🤪

Nope, Trebizond was still around; also the empire fell in 1204 during the 4th Crusade. But obviously, we’re talking about the Western Roman Empire.

It's easy to criticize Justinian with centuries of hindsight. He would have easily won had it not been for the plague coming out of nowhere. A unified Italy was still a major threat to the ERE. The Norman Kingdom proved to be a bane in the side of the Medieval Romans and raided their Balkan/greek possessions many times. The Ostrogoths controlling Pannonia and parts of Illyria also made this issue worse. Not to mention the Senate during the rule of Justin was practically agitating for the Romans in Constantinople to depose Theoderic and the Goths.

Justinian was a murderer at heart and a heretic.

​@@justinpachi3707 Not only the plague but also the Sassanian king's unreliability towards peace treaties

You are not considering the immediate political events of the time - the wars of Justinian were all facilitated by particular circumstances. The Vandal War began because the King of the Vandals deposed and then killed his own uncle. The Gothic Wars began because the Ostrogoths deposed and killed the previous queen. Both had been personal friends of Justinian. He was not only reconquering provinces that had been illegally usurped, but also at least theoretically avenging his allies. The Vandal War and his War in Spain also both were easy wins, it was only the war in Italy that turned out to be a bad idea practically - and even then it would have gone perfectly well if Justinian had only trusted Belisarius enough to handle things.

@@threedragonstalk2123 He was a petty narcissist and an evil man.

to quote Tacitus and a certain Celtic Caledonian chief "they create a desert and call it peace".

@@John_Pace sad that humans remain the same but now have weapons that make their job much easier

I think once everything started going down hill he probably thought he was cursed or something or at least he would have been ashamed and didn't want to be emperor anymore .

To be fair, most of the Gothic war took place after the Plague started and the Sassanids broke the "Eternal Peace" treaty. Troops were not exactly abundant.

@@John_Pace Narrative prose, hardly cemented in reality. It was meant to sound cool for the reader.

Rome was destroyed from within by having no policing of people and institutions for believing of not being corrupt. The institution of Rome itself, still leaves as witnesses are the symbolism of west republics today as well as some organizations stemming from the roman colleges (the latter organizations continue the tradition of corruption today).

@harlockmbb The Goths, divided into two tribes the Ostrogoths led by the Germanic military elites clan Amal, and the Visigoths led by the Balto clan, occasionally intermarried. If you mean Alaric Balto's sacking of Rome in 410 ad, his original intent had not been to destroy Rome, but to negotiate settling his people,which went awry. His eventual decision to pillage didn't include horrendous destruction, nor deaths. As a Christian he wouldn't and didn't burn or destroy churches. I've seen no accounts except fictitious, or click bait literature which allude to the Visigoths causing many deaths. That kind of fake history I expect of a people labelled "barbarian." We are talking about Rome as the arrogant USA of it's time and quite willing to victimise Germans, just like happens to US national minorities today in "America." Furthermore Alaric freed some 12.000 or more Goth slaves held in Rome. It's interesting the cultural proprietary sentiment I see in The postings concerning things Roman, some of it quite maudlin. Alaric moved south from Rome and died probably of malaria in the far southern tip of Italia. His people dammed a river, buried him allegedly with his treasure under the river bed, and allowed the water to flow over it again.

The plague and the volcanic eruptions did 99% of the damage.

Bruh Schwerpunkt we know it's you. You keep shilling your channel on the comments of every history channel

​@@Chaika1974seriously😂?

Also, successive Chinese dynasties managed to do what Justinian failed to do, namely bringing all the territories of the old empire back together again. Imperial China and Imperial Rome do make for very interesting comparisons.

Es wäre super auf Englisch zu schreiben. Ich glaube der liebe maiorianus kann kann barbarisch

@@viktorpe8065 Ich bin in nicht gezwungen, mit einer Person, die des Deutschen mächtig ist auf englisch zu kommunizieren. Wenn man sich durch die simple Nutzung der Deutschen Sprache, eine Antwort wäre ja wohlgemerkt auch auf Englisch möglich, angegriffen fühlt und eine Kommunikation deshalb nicht zustande kommt, ist das halt so. Was ist mit Menschen, die eben kein Englisch sprechen, weil es ihnen nie beigebracht wurde? Die kriegen einfach keine Antwort? @Maiorianus

Venice is as much a "remnant" of Constantinople as of Rome, which, together, are the same tradition. It grew and prospered under the Eastern empire's protection and patronage, and eagerly copied its culture and practices. St. Mark's Cathedral is a direct imitation of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople, later adorned with the artworks stolen by the Venetians during the 1204 sack of the city, mostly famously the four horses of the Hippodrome.

yes, and the man who abolished the Venice Republic had his emperor's coronation and established his empire modeled on the ancient roman.

Venice raped Constantinople and plundered the city.

These are some very good points. Yet,as to government structure,San Marino can be said to be another remnant of Rome

Romanian principalities had cultural, political, religious, military and architectural influences from the Eastern Roman Empire. The two metropolitan Orthodox Churches of Moldavia and Wallachia were the only one's with the privilege from Constantinople to crown the rulers with Byzantine imperial rite. Then, both Principalities United and formed Romania, and Romania is the only independent state that still has an endonym descendant that of Rōmānus.

Or maybe it's because of it. In the recent years of corona and climate change, the same thing is happening.

justinian and belisarius were idiots they destroyed Italy

The issue is whether they were taxed. Or gave something equivalent to a tax. Just calling yourself a 'vassal' but not giving anything of note doesn't have much practical value. It boils down to money. It seems Justinian concluded that whatever status those barbarians claimed it wasn't bringing in any money.

@florinivan6907 True. Roman vassals but mostly lip service.

same way USA sustains funds for 150 years of wars. it was their main focus

Quite likely they enjoyed quite a bit of local support. It wasn't just a handful of barbarians and no one else.

The Eastern Empire lost control of Rome and Ravenna for the last time in the same year - 751. It's interesting that nobody ever seems to propose this as a date for the fall of the Empire. It seems like an obvious candidate.

but they lived better before the invasion.

It already has. Similar to Rome, the peons just don't know it yet.

no the us is not rome neither is or was russia or germany.

@@user-yf6kh3ss3p US have only one thing that keep people together: "freedom". Once that will disappear (and they work hard to make it disappear) US will crash like the glass in pieces.

I'd agree as a punctuation event. I see parallels with the end of the US dated to 9/11/2001. As time goes on more people will realize it.

@@marcv2648 you might be correct

Start of the early Renaissance in Europe?

​@@paulfri1569Rennaisance always represented the end of the Roman Empire

I'd say with the end of the Raj. It was the linchpin of their empire when it came to resources, population, and the credibility if the colonial model. It was also after the loss of India that saw George VI's actual title demoted from "King and Emperor" to merely king.

@@Littlegoatpaws I'd agree with you; the British public was rather shocked to wake up and find that their ruling class had already quite given up on the Empire .. as a going concern (a money-spinner not a financial burden). Rhodesia simply noted the final resolution .. the British government would not and could not afford to maintain imperial control over recalcitrant colonists (the Falkland Campaign merely showed how fragile the remnant might be .. without an iron-willed imperial resolve .. to look otherwise, an expensive business btw). ;o)

​@@TheLeonhammyes, similar situation with South Africa as well, there was a big divorce after instituting Apartheid. As the few profitable colonies sloughed away it became more financially difficult to hold the ones that weren't as easy to sustain like Gold Coast and the like. Then there was the whole Suez crisis involvong its Arab vassals. And after the war Canadians and Australians began viewing themselves more distinct from the old mother country as well. It was a slow process from world spanning empire to a commonwealth of a few island microstates that only stay because they have no resources and can't stage their own strategic defences. But there were major political and cultural events that date the actual "fall" to around 1946 or so.

@@Littlegoatpaws i agree that was the beginning of the end of British empire.