The ENTIRE History of the Byzantine Empire in 11 Minutes

Everyone learns that the Roman Empire fell in 476 AD. It didn't -- it just moved. This is the entire history of the Byzantine Empire, from Constantine founding Constantinople in 330, through Justinian's reconquest and the building of the Hagia Sophia, the plagues, the Persian and Arab wars, Greek fire saving the city under siege, the Macedonian golden age, Basil the Bulgar-Slayer, the disaster at Manzikert, the Crusader sack of 1204, and the final Ottoman siege on 29 May 1453. One empire, a thousand years after Rome was supposed to have ended, in one video. This history documentary covers the entire history of the Byzantine Empire, start to now, in one continuous video. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:26 A religion that had once been hunted and banned 2:50 Justinian also did two things that outlasted 4:15 Within just a few short years they took Syria, 5:40 For over a century, emperors ordered the icons 7:07 The imperial army was destroyed and the emperor 8:35 Fellow Christians stormed and sacked the greatest 9:59 The last emperor, Constantine XI, had only a few