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The history of Byzantium is sad. Just slow, painful retreat into Constantinople

Rome's history was her expansion Byzantium's history was he...
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Lasting a whole 1000 years after western rome fell was still...
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For sure. But man it's a tragic story
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They bounced back a few times. Never to their former glory ...
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Empire under Basil II was still the prime power in the medit...
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They kept the torch of civilization burning until the West w...
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In schools today kids aren’t taught anything about Byz...
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Why Constantine moved that far east is completely beyond me
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That's where all the money was. It was genius and saved Chr...
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It was a small town before him - if it weren't for the fores...
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I meant in terms of going that Far East. But yeah well done...
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West was seen as a festering TTT by then. All the wealth ...
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Roman history major here. This is pretty damn good.
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History major here took a bunch of Roman history in college
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The other realistic options were Antioch and Alexandria you’...
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I mean you can't pick a more important and defensible locati...
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Yeah I get what you're saying
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The walls of Constantinople might be the most important stru...
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The only strategic structure in medieval history, the only o...
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It's always lulzy when some invader lays siege and immediate...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sieges_of_Constantinop...
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Interesting point here. 180.
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Out of italy, MENA, and western europe, wasn't w. europe alw...
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"Europe" as a geopolitical entity really didn't em...
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It makes for an interesting historical counterfactual though...
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You see this today in America's obsession with Israel -- pow...
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Interesting point.
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"more Chinese than the Chinese themselves" what...
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Crusades so, so embarrassing to read about now. What a waste...
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I think you're overstating it. It was multiple periods of de...
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CR on Warren Treadgold. Been reading Anthony Kaldellis re...
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Anything by Roger Crowley is unabashed 180, particularly his...
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180
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This. Unforced error on the largest of scales.
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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:47 PM
Author: brilliant background story address

Rome's history was her expansion

Byzantium's history was her dismemberment by the Muslims

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879250)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:48 PM
Author: Gaped Unholy Faggotry Mental Disorder

Lasting a whole 1000 years after western rome fell was still a huge accomplishment and kind of a miracle given the odds and all sorts of enemies they faced.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879259)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:49 PM
Author: french provocative foreskin sound barrier



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:50 PM
Author: brilliant background story address

For sure. But man it's a tragic story

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879272)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:51 PM
Author: Fighting ultramarine weed whacker

They bounced back a few times. Never to their former glory but still the preeminent people on earth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879284)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:53 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

Empire under Basil II was still the prime power in the mediterranean

Economically they were at their heights under the Komnenos iirc - when London was just a town of 20K, when Paris was barely a city Constantinople housed like 400K

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879300)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 5:03 PM
Author: scarlet spot

The Nebraska football story

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879370)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:52 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead



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Date: September 25th, 2018 11:28 AM
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Date: September 30th, 2018 3:18 PM
Author: hairraiser honey-headed psychic international law enforcement agency

Probably the best located city in world history, particularly relative to weaponry at the time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36927479)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 3:34 PM
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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:48 PM
Author: slate unhinged nursing home internal respiration

They kept the torch of civilization burning until the West was ready to take it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879258)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:49 PM
Author: french provocative foreskin sound barrier



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Date: September 24th, 2018 6:40 PM
Author: Talented Lemon Half-breed Menage



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Date: September 24th, 2018 9:50 PM
Author: Maroon beady-eyed gas station queen of the night



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 3:23 AM
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Date: April 22nd, 2023 4:43 PM
Author: Racy obsidian dilemma

In schools today kids aren’t taught anything about Byzantium. They’re taught that Muslims in Arabia and North Africa preserved all of the knowledge of the ancient world and that we wouldn’t have any knowledge of Aristotle, Plato, etc., if not for the Muslims.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46225944)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:48 PM
Author: french provocative foreskin sound barrier

Why Constantine moved that far east is completely beyond me

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879260)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:50 PM
Author: Fighting ultramarine weed whacker

That's where all the money was. It was genius and saved Christendom

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879273)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:56 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

It was a small town before him - if it weren't for the foresight of Constantine most others would've just built the palace at Nicomedia like others have done

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879327)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:59 PM
Author: Fighting ultramarine weed whacker

I meant in terms of going that Far East. But yeah well done all around

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879342)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 5:04 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

West was seen as a festering TTT by then.

All the wealth from the East was being used to defend the West at the time, especially as the border farmlands became barren and unused by the 4th century

Rome itself did not have an emperor since the 3rd century b/c it was just a terrible location for post 3rd century crises emperors, who were basically all Illyrian soldiers.

It was a natural progression of what had been going on for over a century by that point - Emperors were increasingly stationed in the frontlines, and to make it easier, Diocletian just made official what had been happening, creating multiple "emperors" that'd take care of a given region of the empire.

Before Constantine, during the Tetrarchy, Constantius (Constantine's father) ruled from Trier.

Diocletian (the "senior" emperor) ruled from Nicomedia (right across the Bosphorus from what would later be Constantinople).

Galerius ruled from Sirmium (his territory was the most idiosyncratic actually - normally when the empire had different emperors they usually divided it along the Balkans and have Greece be part of the Eastern front but Diocletian just put the most important line of defense that costs the most $$ for defense w/ 0 production - the Balkans - to Galerius and only gave him Greece and Thracia to work with)

Maximian, the Western Augustus ruled from Milan

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879371)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 6:16 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle poppy ape stag film

cr scholarship here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879743)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 9:51 PM
Author: Maroon beady-eyed gas station queen of the night



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Date: September 30th, 2018 4:32 PM
Author: hairraiser honey-headed psychic international law enforcement agency

Roman history major here. This is pretty damn good.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36927983)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 8:30 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

History major here took a bunch of Roman history in college

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36929251)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 5:36 AM
Author: Trip Citrine Whorehouse



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:50 PM
Author: Gaped Unholy Faggotry Mental Disorder

The other realistic options were Antioch and Alexandria you’d think right? Would be some interesting alternate timelines.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879275)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:50 PM
Author: brilliant background story address

I mean you can't pick a more important and defensible location in the Mediterranean

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879276)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:51 PM
Author: french provocative foreskin sound barrier

Yeah I get what you're saying

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879285)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:52 PM
Author: Fighting ultramarine weed whacker

The walls of Constantinople might be the most important structure ever erected by humanity

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879294)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:56 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

The only strategic structure in medieval history, the only one to be so good that the empire's foreign policy depended on its walls

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879323)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:57 PM
Author: Fighting ultramarine weed whacker

It's always lulzy when some invader lays siege and immediately realizes they're fucked. Must have been a peak experience

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879333)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:58 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

So good that Heraclius was like "fuck it might as well use our reserves to actually INVADE the Persians while the capital is besieged on all sides by Luis and Avars"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879340)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 5:00 PM
Author: Fighting ultramarine weed whacker

ljl at savages on horses even denting dem walls. Show it big, KNOW it's big

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879352)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 6:09 PM
Author: purple personal credit line juggernaut

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879703)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:59 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sieges_of_Constantinople

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879343)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 4:33 PM
Author: hairraiser honey-headed psychic international law enforcement agency

Interesting point here. 180.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36927987)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 6:42 PM
Author: bossy bipolar theater stage

Out of italy, MENA, and western europe, wasn't w. europe always the lesser part of the roman empire, with britain being the shittiest, least desirable part?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879878)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 6:46 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

"Europe" as a geopolitical entity really didn't emerge until the fall of Rome if you think about it.

THere was a distinct Mediterranean civilization - until the Mediterranean became a border, not Mare NOstrum.

You probably felt like you were in the same civilization going from Rome to Carthage.

Can't say the same for Rome to....whatever Forest druidshit they were doing up in Berlin at the time.

Grain supply from Alexandria fed the proles of Rome, and Antioch/Alexandria were the richest areas of the Empire.

Britain was a festering TTT in decline, and especially after the 3rd century, a lot of the farmlands by the Rhine and the Danube frontier in the Western provinces were abandoned from the constant invasions.

In essense the wealth from the East basically paid for the defense in the West by the 5th century - which is why the West on its own just simply could not hold on while the East could pay off the Huns with massive amts of gold

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879901)



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Date: September 25th, 2018 6:40 PM
Author: Umber filthy dysfunction

You're hearing a lot of good geostrategic answers, which are 100% valid, but you also need to consider the cultural overlay. Constantine was embracing a tradition of Roman elite fascination with the peregrine east (both their "near frontier"--"Graecia"--and the "far frontier"--"Asia" and elsewehere) dating back for centuries; and it's a tradition that also had, as a part of it, an intersection with military and civic decisionmaking (think about the conduct of figures like Antony and Pompey before him, or Caesar for that matter). It's one of the more fascinating aspects of Roman elite culture and something classicists have spent a lot of time thinking about, without coming to a definitive answer. The permanent movement of the capital was in a way a culmination of those centuries of cultural pressure toward the eastern borders of empire.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36887851)



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Date: September 26th, 2018 9:57 AM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36891372)



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Date: September 27th, 2018 4:31 PM
Author: Umber filthy dysfunction



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36905325)



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Date: September 27th, 2018 4:46 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

It's somewhat close to the Francophilia of the Russian nobility or the way that rich Americans looked to Britain in the 19th c.

The difference of course being that the Romans actually conquered Greece.

Maybe somewhat relevant is the Nomadic tribes that conquered china becoming "more Chinese than the Chinese themselves"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36905548)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 1:44 PM
Author: Umber filthy dysfunction

It makes for an interesting historical counterfactual thought experiment--how much did this cultural facet of the Roman people affect their grand strategy? What if they'd simply evolved to be more chauvanistic? Would, for example, there have been more attention paid to the possibility of expansion in northern europe, which had been dismissed as valueless, partially because of their observation on the level of available resources, but also almost definitely because there was a sort of "why bother" attitude (this comes out in Tacitus). Rome is a good case study for comparative politics here because, to your point, often when you're dealing with an elite / policy-selecting portion of a society beset by a fascination for some other culture, they're not also engaging in significant geopolitics. So you don't get to see the effects of that cultural impression in action on statecraft. In Rome, we did (if we accept the thesis).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36927009)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 4:40 PM
Author: hairraiser honey-headed psychic international law enforcement agency

You see this today in America's obsession with Israel -- power, faith, and fantasy, to use Oren's blurb.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36928027)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 9:01 PM
Author: Umber filthy dysfunction

Interesting point.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36929410)



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Date: October 21st, 2019 7:05 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

In a way, you could say the same for the Komnenian era/the Crusades for the Byzantines.

Instead of focusing on the Anatolian heartlands, the Komnenian emperors- Alexios, Ioannes & Manuel - focused on re-capturing the Holy Land & Europe (especially Sicily & Italy although it failed bigtime) rather than try to shorten the line of defense by re-capturing the Anatolian heartlands that was the basis for the Theme system that was the core of the Byzantine army during the Macedonian era.

The result was that although the Empire recovered from the fallout from Manzikert in a short time, it would never have the defensive position it held at the time of Basil II and had virtually little defense for the coastal towns that prospered under the Komnenian restoration

(Byzantium when Alexios I came to power:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Byzantiumforecrusades.jpg)

(Byzantium after Manuel's reign - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Byzantium_in_1170%283%29.PNG) - you could see that although they managed to recapture a lot of the more important towns, the jutting mass of Turkic Rum Sultanate in the middle of Anatolia was to pose a huge military problem for the empire.

Why? Because of the cultural hold that both Antioch and Jerusalem had for CHristendom

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#39009245)



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Date: January 30th, 2020 12:58 AM
Author: Puce Underhanded Prole

I really think there's something to the thesis developed in the exchange above. Probably a monograph out of it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#39512005)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 3:38 PM
Author: motley transparent university

This is a deeply under appreciated subthread.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46225723)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 3:39 PM
Author: motley transparent university



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46225729)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 3:38 PM
Author: motley transparent university



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46225722)



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Date: October 1st, 2018 12:34 AM
Author: bossy bipolar theater stage

"more Chinese than the Chinese themselves"

what does this refer to? polite fictional characteristics attributed only to the royals of the manchu qing dynasty? to my knowledge it was NOT claimed by, or of, any of the other steppe dynasties

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36930800)



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Date: December 10th, 2018 5:44 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

Before Manchus, before Qing.

The numerous tribes that invaded during the 4th century that now cease to exist, especially the Northern Dynasties.

Especially the Tang

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#37384669)



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Date: January 29th, 2020 11:50 PM
Author: vigorous at-the-ready dopamine church

Didn't the Greeks themselves believe Romans were descendants of fleeing Trojans?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#39511787)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 3:38 PM
Author: motley transparent university



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46225725)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:51 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

Retarded flame.

They kept the Christendom safe from Muslims.

Without victory in Constantinople in 717 Europe was DONEHERE

Also Basil II, Ioannes Tsmiskes and Nikephoros II Phokas ("The White Death of Saracens") were pretty 180.

They even at one point retook Antioch, and even invaded Egypt under Manuel I Komnenos

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879287)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:52 PM
Author: brilliant background story address

They certainly had a couple moments but they were typically on defense

Like Tolkien's Elves vs. the Orcish onslaught

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879296)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 4:55 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

Bullshit - from 9th to 11th century they were on the offensive

What really ended it was the 4th Crusade.

From the Macedonian Dynasty until Battle of Manzikert was the 1st resurgence after the rise of Islam, and its 2nd resurgence was under the Komnenos.

Too bad Manuel died without a real heir - if he'd won at Myriokephalon history would be a lot different

And if you think about it Rome itself was on the defensive since... Augustus really (ok after Trajan)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879312)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 4:44 PM
Author: hairraiser honey-headed psychic international law enforcement agency

Crusades so, so embarrassing to read about now. What a waste.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36928053)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 5:00 PM
Author: sable plaza mad cow disease

I think you're overstating it. It was multiple periods of decline and expansion.

They reconquered much of the West under Justinian, lost a ton of territory to the Muslims and Bulgarians then regained it under the Macedonian emperors, lost Anatolia to the Turks then regained much of it under the Komnenoi. The dagger that made any real recovery hopeless was the Fourth Crusade. Before that they were still a great power or at times the strongest power in Europe/the ME.

There's a ton of cool history with them too. Their interactions with the barbarian empires that would be come modern Western Europe are fascinating. The story of Heraclius insane comeback against the Persians is cool as fuck. Anything involving Alexios is great. Like the rarely talked about wars against invading Norman conquerors and how those same people would eventually pass through Constantinople on the way to the First Crusade).

History of Byzantine State and Society by Warren Treadgold is a good book. It goes emperor by emperor discussing politics, society, day to day life, military campaigns etc. He's on the Byzophile side of things relative to most Byz scholars, so he puffs them up a bit. But it's a good book.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879355)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 5:05 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

CR on Warren Treadgold.

Been reading Anthony Kaldellis recently actually

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879377)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 4:48 PM
Author: hairraiser honey-headed psychic international law enforcement agency

Anything by Roger Crowley is unabashed 180, particularly his history of the siege of Constantinople.

Do check it out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36928079)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 5:39 PM
Author: Vermilion temple coldplay fan

Flame, it's a deeply heroic story. Rome was clearly supposed to fall in the early 600s. The West was already lost. The plague gutted their economy and population. Their borders were constantly penetrated by one tribe or another. Then in the early 600s there were several civil wars, paired with a massive Persian invasion that gobbled up Syria and Egypt, the two best provinces. Italy was deadweight, blown out from decades of war and menaced constantly by Lombards. The empire had one field army left. It would be entirely predictable for them to die off entirely.

But instead, Heraclius turned the tide, came back, and after decades of war, decisively crushed the Sassanid Empire. Things promptly fell back into decline, but that's beside the point. For a thousand years, the tides of history ordained that Byzantium would be swept aside, forever, but they battled back over and over again, going down in a blaze of glory in the process. The Muslims conquered for thousands of miles in every direction, sweeping up Africa, Spain, Persia, Central Asia, half of India...but for 800 years, Byzantium plugged them from entering Eastern Europe. Slavic hordes swarmed across the Danube, but could never go the last ten yards and conquer Thrace. They suffered a catastrophic defeat at Manzikert, but battled back for 150 years and undid virtually all the damage, until the 4th Crusade sacked their capital. And they STILL came back from that, got back the capital, and limped on for another TWO HUNDRED FIFTY years, longer than the US has existed, before finally actually falling.

That's inspiring, imo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879515)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 5:43 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

CR. So many moments where you'd think "oh this is when they fall"

But they come back from all that.

Now imagine being Heraclius though, and you bring back the True Cross to Jerusalem, revive the Empire after that long war w/ teh Sassanids when Rome really should've fallen then.

Then you see Khalid ibn al Walid lead his army into Yarmouk....

The feeling of loss and hopelessness after losing the Levant/Egypt must've been some next level shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879540)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 5:43 PM
Author: french provocative foreskin sound barrier



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879544)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 6:39 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

It does beg an interesting question though. China also went through a similar dismemberment of an old empire by hordes of nomads, and the Empire had to move east to a different capital surrounded by water to hold on while its older cultural heartlands were now swarmed by barbarians.

Yet China after 3 centuries of warfare managed to reunite, while Byzantines never reconquered the Levant, Egypt, NA and Gaul/Spain.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879858)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 6:45 PM
Author: bossy bipolar theater stage

he jiu bi fen | fen jiu bi he

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879895)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 6:48 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

Which is a post-facto revisionism of Chinese history.

They think this is a natural progression - but why? There certainly were points of diversion when there could've been distinct civilizations w/ one centered around the Yangtze vs one up in Huabei



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879920)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 9:57 PM
Author: bossy bipolar theater stage

but it always came back together; the meme became self-aware, self-consciously replicating.

literally forever henceforth the major warlords of any given chinese era will be thinking about unification, and any leader of a unified china, about the empire splitting up. derrida!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36881320)



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Date: September 25th, 2018 9:56 AM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

Sure - after Sui.

I'm not so sure the warlords from 4th-6th centuries necessarily felt that way, especially early on as these nomads had a different character in dealing w/ the Hans as did later nomadic invasions did (although there's been some SCHOLARSHIP done on this with the whole Sino-Barbarian Synthesis thing).



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36883755)



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Date: September 25th, 2018 4:19 PM
Author: bossy bipolar theater stage

yeah I don't know a lot about the Han conquest of the Xiongnu (which seems to have been quite the multigenerational epic, per T. Greer/Scholar's Stage), my account is from FW Mote and he starts the story with the Khitan Liao dynasty. Everything about steppe-Han policy since then has been a relitigation of the Khitans'/Jurchens' dilemma (which can be generalized to Ibn Khaldun's notion of asabiyah http://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2015/05/introducing-asabiyah.html )

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36886749)



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Date: September 25th, 2018 4:32 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

Well I was specifically talking about the time period when the Jin collapsed right after they finally ended the 3 Kingdoms Era.

A century before the Western Roman Empire fell, Jin also collapsed in a similar manner, and like 5 different states were set up in the northern plains while the Jin dynasty moved east to what is now Nanjing and only held the Yangtze River area + Jingzhou while the nomads took every land up north

These nomads had little experience ruling Han people, and were quite different in character from later dynasties like Liao - most didn't even use the title Emperor (huangdi) but used "Celestial King" (tian-wang).

These kingdoms you could probably compared to the Germano-Roman kingdoms like Visigothic Kingdom in Iberia, Vandal Africa, Ostrogothic Italy (Theodoric could probably be compared to Shi Le) and the Frankish Kingdom - barbarian leaders, native bureaucracy creating a hybrid culture.

Remember that after Han fell, China had multiple kingdoms for ~340 years if you take out the 30 years of unified Jin. Certainly enough time for an entirely new political tradition to form

Yet china still reunited. Why?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36886856)



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Date: September 25th, 2018 6:34 PM
Author: bossy bipolar theater stage

not sure but http://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2014/09/what-edward-luttwak-doesnt-know-about_6.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36887805)



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Date: September 25th, 2018 6:45 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

Lol funnily Edward LUttwak's writing on the Grand Strategy of Byzantine Empire is actually a decent read.

Will read some of it but my main crux of argumet isn't about Han-xiongnu, it's basically about post-Han - xianbei/di/qiang etc relations

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36887872)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 10:12 PM
Author: bright stage

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36881459)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 5:56 PM
Author: Balding philosopher-king incel

i am now a Byzantium after reading this inspiring ass shit in this thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879625)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 5:56 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

Time to fire up CK2 and reconquer the Levant with Basil I

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879632)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 6:02 PM
Author: sable plaza mad cow disease

Really looking forward to the upcoming DLC. Might be the last one and it looks amazing. Actually pretty absurd how they've never revamped the crusade system after all of these years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879668)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 6:37 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

Pet peeve is when I play as Alexios Komnenos and the Pope declares a crusade on Greece, taking away what should be my core territories in Asia Minor.

Really get the whole situation when Crusaders showed up as Alexios had to double time them to ensure that they were reconquering Byzantine lands, not carving new fiefdoms

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879846)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 6:11 PM
Author: purple personal credit line juggernaut

Lol opened new eu iv game bc of this thread ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36879706)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 9:01 PM
Author: sick painfully honest set

4th crusade was ahuge blunder

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36880919)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 5:07 PM
Author: hairraiser honey-headed psychic international law enforcement agency

This. Unforced error on the largest of scales.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36928179)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 9:07 PM
Author: Insanely Creepy State Haunted Graveyard

their truly fatal error was fucking around depleting themselves and the sassanids in a series of destructive and pointless wars while the army of mohammed was rampaging to their south.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36880954)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 9:44 PM
Author: spectacular main people

This thread is 180 and my knowledge of this stuff is sps. What is the credited book?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36881245)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 9:45 PM
Author: Talented Lemon Half-breed Menage

Play EUIV as the Ottomans and read all of the historical references.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36881253)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 9:49 PM
Author: spectacular main people

What is that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36881277)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 9:50 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

Too late by that point.

I recommend CK2 if you really want to know more about the byzantines

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36881281)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 9:54 PM
Author: spectacular main people

Is that a game?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36881303)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 9:49 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

Although not a SCHOLAR per se, John Julius Norwich's History of Byzantium is a good place to start.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36881279)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 5:08 PM
Author: hairraiser honey-headed psychic international law enforcement agency

Roger Crowley FTW. Consistently interesting.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36928192)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 5:08 PM
Author: hairraiser honey-headed psychic international law enforcement agency

Begin here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0092TEB14/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i3

If you like it, go deeper.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36928187)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 1:57 PM
Author: chocolate striped hyena pit

Bookmarked

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46225406)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 9:53 PM
Author: Stimulating persian range

Third Rome, bitches. So long as a Russian Czar reigns in Moscow the fire will not die.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36881296)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 10:10 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

The Third Rome forcememe is the saddest thing the Russians have ever pulled

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36881432)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 10:11 PM
Author: Stimulating persian range

Considering that their refusal to help Byzantium is why it fell...yeah.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36881445)



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Date: September 25th, 2018 9:51 AM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

First time I've seen you actually take an L on what Russians did 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36883731)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 5:09 PM
Author: hairraiser honey-headed psychic international law enforcement agency

Pls explain. Sincerely, I'm not aware of this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36928196)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 3:24 AM
Author: Trip Citrine Whorehouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46224277)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 9:54 PM
Author: exhilarant amethyst indian lodge

OP better be an empire that has lasted for 2,000 years or else he should STFU

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36881297)



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Date: September 25th, 2018 9:51 AM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36883734)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 9:57 PM
Author: Stimulating persian range

Technically Byzantium still exists. There’s that one Greek Island filled with monks where the Byzantine flag has been flying continuously all this time. Those fuckers still won’t bend the knee to Greece. Fuck is it called?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36881319)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 10:01 PM
Author: spectacular main people

Mykonos

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36881355)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 10:03 PM
Author: Insanely Creepy State Haunted Graveyard

you mean the Mt. Athos peninsula? no women are allowed there, either.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36881364)



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Date: September 25th, 2018 9:54 AM
Author: Gaped Unholy Faggotry Mental Disorder

This place sounds 180. Supposedly they have all sorts of Byzantine artifacts and documents that they rarely let anyone see.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36883751)



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Date: October 21st, 2019 7:10 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

A lot of the "Greeks" considered themselves as Romans until the 20th century.

"On 8 October 1912, during the First Balkan War, Lemnos became part of Greece. The Greek navy under Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis took it over without any casualties from the occupying Turkish Ottoman garrison, who were returned to Anatolia.

Peter Charanis, born on the island in 1908 and later a professor of Byzantine history at Rutgers University recounts when the island was occupied and Greek soldiers were sent to the villages and stationed themselves in the public squares. Some of the children ran to see what Greek soldiers looked like.

‘‘What are you looking at?’’ one of them asked.

‘‘At Hellenes,’’ the children replied.

‘‘Are you not Hellenes yourselves?’’ a soldier retorted.

‘‘No, we are Romans.""



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#39009263)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 10:04 PM
Author: Flickering Vivacious Cruise Ship

this thread has taught me that XO's single greatest area of expertise is the history of the roman empire

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36881379)



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Date: September 24th, 2018 10:11 PM
Author: irradiated kitty cat institution

second only to nude bodybuilding!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36881446)



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Date: September 25th, 2018 10:19 AM
Author: Talented Lemon Half-breed Menage

Western history in general

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36883898)



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Date: September 25th, 2018 4:20 PM
Author: french provocative foreskin sound barrier

cr you get the same 5 idiots rambling about metaphysics every other day then BAM you get this thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36886754)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 5:12 PM
Author: hairraiser honey-headed psychic international law enforcement agency

Possibly true. Read "History of Civilization" by the Durants and get back to me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36928209)



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Date: January 30th, 2020 12:53 AM
Author: vigorous at-the-ready dopamine church



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#39511997)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 1:59 PM
Author: cerise curious jewess

Who were the Eastern Romans ethnically? Was it a few Romans lording over a mishmash of peoples?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36927090)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 2:40 PM
Author: cowardly useless brakes



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36927345)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 2:42 PM
Author: Coral hot native

good question honiara what ethnicity were the people in Greece. Hopefully a scholar can weigh in here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36927357)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 5:10 PM
Author: Vermilion temple coldplay fan

Romanized elites from across the empire. Justinian was of peasant origins from Illyria. Heraclius was probably Armenian. Zeno was Isaurian. The core of the empire was ethnically Greek, though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36928199)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 7:32 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

Among the elites there definitely also was a lot of people with Armenian blood. The Armenian-Byzantine relations is always a bit underrated in the West in publoc consciousness

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36929018)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 8:08 PM
Author: cerise curious jewess

What language did the ruling class speak?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36929154)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 8:28 PM
Author: Medicated ebony pisswyrm stead

In the military they Spoke Latin well into the 7th century iirc. Justinian primarily spoke Latin in public although probably with an Illyrian dialect. The elites did look down upon him somewhat for being unable to speak Latin.

A lot of it changed in the 7th century (really the shock of the Sassanid Wars and the Islamic Invasions in the 7th century gave a systemic shock to the empire. Essentially it ended the "city" in a legal sense in the empire, Athens was only a small town and people only libe by the Acropolis as they needed firm defenses, lots of the prominent Latin speaking elites in Constantinople, primarily from the era of Constantine himself, all but disappeared and was replaced by Greek speakers. Some Roman institutions remained like rhe consulship or the senate but its roles were diminished greatly or just were changed to Greek names. Augustus became Sebastokrator later in the 11th? 12th? Centuries. The provinces after the shock of Yarmouk qas reorganized into Themes- a self sufficient armies that basically was supposed to farm their lands and be self sufficient. Greek replaced the language- after around Heraclius, the title Imperator became Basileus. (althiugh recent scholarship has pointed to a more gradual process instead of attributing all the BIG CHANGES to Heraclius himself. Also note that Basileus had been used in the east to denote the emperor for centuries as well.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36929244)



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Date: October 1st, 2018 1:19 AM
Author: Vermilion temple coldplay fan

Justinian is probably the last emperor whose first language was Latin and his famous civil code was written in Latin, but within a century Greek was the sole language of administration and that almost certainly reflected an even earlier dominance in day-to-day use.

Interestingly Latin's apex in the east was during the LATE Roman empire. During the Pax Romana Greek worked just fine as the lingua franca of the eastern empire, but one of Diocletian's reforms was an emphasis on the use of Latin throughout the empire, which is perhaps the only reason the eastern empire bothered to use it at all after Italy fell.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36930929)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 5:13 PM
Author: hairraiser honey-headed psychic international law enforcement agency

They were white, if that's what you are asking.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36928214)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 4:56 PM
Author: floppy light regret stage

180 thread. 4th crusade shit is sad as fuck. however, doesn't the failure lead to the age of exploration.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36928124)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 5:13 PM
Author: hairraiser honey-headed psychic international law enforcement agency

"Lead" is debatable, but possibly so.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36928218)



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Date: April 24th, 2023 12:21 AM
Author: peach associate trailer park

juden getting booted from Spain kicked it off

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46230493)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 8:26 PM
Author: thriller cyan mother center

ITT: massive assburgers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36929230)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 9:08 PM
Author: Vermilion temple coldplay fan

(Monophysite)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36929476)



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Date: September 30th, 2018 9:10 PM
Author: thriller cyan mother center

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq3bJAyZqMI

im well aware of the 180 exploits of the byzantine empire. but OP does have a point when he says its sad how they just slowly faded into nothingness

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#36929487)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 3:22 AM
Author: peach associate trailer park

it's 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46224273)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 4:28 AM
Author: Razzle Splenetic Generalized Bond Cuck



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46224300)



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Date: July 26th, 2019 2:01 PM
Author: brilliant background story address



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#38592562)



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Date: January 29th, 2020 11:24 PM
Author: lascivious jap sanctuary



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#39511602)



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Date: June 7th, 2020 9:20 PM
Author: brilliant background story address



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#40373249)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 1:22 AM
Author: lascivious jap sanctuary



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46224108)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 1:25 AM
Author: peach associate trailer park



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46224114)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 5:23 AM
Author: brilliant background story address

This was my OP

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46224335)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 4:31 AM
Author: Razzle Splenetic Generalized Bond Cuck

reading about the fall and decline of the empire literally makes me weep

i.e. the things we gave up, for the trivialities that we're still stuck on to this day

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46224303)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 5:16 AM
Author: slimy appetizing karate

if heraclius were an xo poaster he would've been an "accelerationist" that bent the knee and just paid the jizya to get it over with, and christianity would've ended up about as relevant as zoroastrianism

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46224327)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 1:40 PM
Author: brilliant background story address

Heraclius by any rights should be as well known as Caesar or Alexander

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46225343)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 3:17 PM
Author: bespoke multi-colored locale boltzmann



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46225661)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 1:46 PM
Author: Gaped Unholy Faggotry Mental Disorder

What a great thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46225366)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 1:59 PM
Author: chocolate striped hyena pit

Cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46225428)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 2:29 PM
Author: brilliant background story address

I am traveling to Constantinople this summer primarily due to this thread I started 4.5 years ago and the scholarship arising thereafter

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46225543)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 3:18 PM
Author: bespoke multi-colored locale boltzmann

Jealous brother . Always wanted to go. Shame the Hagia Sophia is being used as a mosque though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46225664)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 3:23 PM
Author: brilliant background story address

One day the minarets will come down, brother

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46225681)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 2:31 PM
Author: brilliant background story address

Until the Hagia Sophia is free of minarets, the men of Europe are men in name only

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46225554)



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Date: April 22nd, 2023 4:54 PM
Author: grizzly concupiscible cuckold

lol at expecting Latins or Germans to care about schismatic boy-lovers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4086319&forum_id=2#46225980)