+Jack Cliff Don't think so. Romulus wouldn't be proud about a child-king displaced by his own guard and so happened to have his name.If you are talking about constantine and his people, they were greeks.I guess they made proud their own ancestors
+kost pap What we call the Byzantine Empire was the Roman Empire to everyone other than the Papacy and HRE, both of whose powers were reliant on denying the Empire its Roman identity. To everyone else, it was the Roman Empire-and it remained so till the end. Constantine XI Palaiologus did not resign and slink away like Romulus Augustus, he stayed and died fighting for Constantinople till the very end. The Byzantine Empire was made up of Roman Citizens (since 212), had a recognized Roman Emperor at its helm from 285 and thus was a pretty old entity when the Western Empire fell. The Byzantines continuously held on to the Roman identity (unlike West Europe) and fought to the end to defend it. They were the last Romans, contrary to what popular misconceptions may suggest. - A very good answer from Diptarka Hait on Quora. Did you know when Ceasar was stabbed by Brutus he did not say Et Tu Brute, he said in greek: “Kai su, teknon?” (according to Suetonius). The phrase means “You too, child?”.
Jack Cliff As for Constantine, I know how he died. I was not reffering to him, but to romulus augustilus. Indeed the roman empire was made up of roman citizens, but this entity was political,in order to serve a multicultural empire. But when the western part fell,as well as egypt and syria, the remaining terrirories comprised mostly of the helladic world, with most of his inhabitants to be greek or greekspeaking. As a result, what was a multicultural state, became the closest medieval example to what we call today a nation-state. As Constantine said "...let them know,that they are not fighting with animals without logic, like them, but with lords and rulers, descendants of Greeks and Romans[...]We should sacrifice even our lives to save the queen of cities, the country and shelter of christendom, the hope and joy of all greeks" (George Sfrantzes, the Small Chronicon)"
The walls of Ba Sing Se were based on the Theodosian Walls of Constantinople. One of the animators did mention that they designed the walls based on a combination of The Great Wall of China and Constantinople.
The story of the Turks overcoming that wall is not complete, and it is a great story. The teller stopped telling the story in best part of it !! the Turks literally drove their boats on the land getting into the golden horn.
+TheManWhoDoubts First of all, moving boats over land as a military maneuver wasn't that uncommon. Second of all, the fall of Constantinople is an entire story unto itself.
+Choodel Larker Play Crusader Kings II instead, you can convert the file to EUIV once you've reached 1444 and are done restoring the roman empire for an insanely OP game start.
My mother being from Istanbul, and my family visiting it every year, this video was absolutely brilliant for me. It's amazing to really know the history of the city.
Fun Fact: The "Ottoman Cannon" or Dardanelles gun was invented by a Hungarian. Now that I think about it, If the 4th crusade hadn't happened, the Byzantines might have been wealthy enough to purchase the cannon and retake their land with cutting edge technology. So i suppose you can weigh the options: Europe flourishing into the renaissance using the remnants of the byzantine empire, or the Roman empire still existing, most likely to today even.
but they were romans werent they, in fact, one of the names of the greeks today is romans. the byzantine empire was nothing more than a roman state, christian in religion, greek in culture.
Yes, that is what I'm saying, calling them Byzantines is very ahistoric, since they were the heirs of the Roman State, that's why I gave this video a thumbs up, for calling them Romans.Stavros Vasileiadis
when I look at Byzantine Architecture, I see an extension of Roman Architecture. ...with the fall, the construction tradition died.....meanwhile, when the renaissance did come, it was a total disconnect from Byzantine and a rather backwards attempt at pass glory, and a reaction to Gothic, which I find far more interesting...a totally new style.
The turks didn't destroy the byzantine empire, the fourth crusade did, all the turks did was defeat the remnants. The sword of chistendom fell upon it's shield and Rome crumbled as a result.
Atakan Remzi Dezkaya Eh no the byzantine emnpire lasted for centruies after Manzikert. The komnenoi were even doing a fairy good job on taking it back before they lost the throne.
You forgotten how the Venetian 4th crusade took the city by going over the shorter sea walls and how the Empire of Nicaea recaptured it from the Latins in 1261 via secrete passage while the Latin garrison was out raiding the Nicaean island of Daphnousia.
"If they have a greatest walls of the world we must prepare biggest canon of history." -Mehmet The Conqueror (He was 21 when conquered the byzantine empire. And the "Şahi Canons" designed by him in person.)
These are the famous Theodosian walls, and they protected an empire that waxed and waned, but lasted 1100 years. For an exciting, page-turning history, see John Julius Norwich's 'A Short History of Byzantium', a shortened version of his own three-volume work. Never a dull moment.
Not entirely accurate. The fall of constantinople did not "ignite the renaissance", it did however give the renaissance more fuel. The renaissance actually started around the late 13th early 14th century in Florence.
The Byzantine had their renaissance much earlier than the west. Around the 9th century, the interest in ancient science started to spread across the empire. When the 4th crusade looted the city in 1204 they took a lot of the knowledge back to Italy.
Dude, how long do you think Constantinople was under siege? The people who could read the writing on the wall had likely been fleeing for 100 years prior to the fall of the city.
The guy that made this video, Lars Brownworth, has a 17 episode podcast series about the Byzantine Empire titled '12 Byzantine Rulers: The History of the Byzantine Empire'. I highly recommend it for more information about that time period and Constantinople from this very same person. It's a shame they didn't link it in the video description.
? in 1753 it was already considred backwards and it was falling apart, economy was shit. Sultans were confined to the harem and more.. 1683 marks the stop of expansion so 200 years is not far off the answer.
Martin Luther's own words. "...Only count up his lands, dear sir. He has Greece, Asia, Syria, Egypt, Arabia, etc., that is, he has so many lands that if Spain, France, England, Germany, Italy, Bohemia, Hungary, Poland, and Denmark were all counted together, they would not equal the land he has. Besides, he is master of all of them and commands effective and ready obedience. And, as has been said, they are constantly under arms and are exercised in warfare, so that he has staying-power, and can deliver two, three, four battles, one after another, as he showed against the Sultan. This Gog and Magog is a different kind of majesty than our kings and princes..."
Incorrect: the strait of Bosporus separates the two continents, the two parts of the ancient world. Since remote times, that line of water has been the border of Europa from the Orient. So yes, Constantinople is in the West: as a matter of fact, it's its most remote yet crucial bastion as it was in 1453.
😂😂...so true. But if you about it. The East was the stable cultured and wealthy part of Europe/Mediterranean/middle East for much of the time. The West holding those titles for a small amount of time. Is just us living today seeing it weird
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At the beginning of the video (0:13), you can see the Black Sea on the right side of the map. To the left of the Black sea, there is a lake visible, which has a rhomboid/diamond shape. This lake is also visible from 0:31 to 0:50, and again from 03:37 up until 03:51. The question is - What's the name of the lake?
Attilla: Behold, it is I! Scourge of... Bob: Hey boss, those walls look pretty tall. Attilla: Don't interrupt me! _clears throat_ It it I! Scour... Bob: And that moat, is that water burning? Attilla: Yeah, so what? I'm the scourge of god! awkward silence Bob: Maybe we should go pillage another city. Attilla: Yeah... You're probably right. *invading army turns around and leaves*
Without the 4th "Crusade" im sure Constantinople would have lasted at least 2 more centuries if not 600 centuries more in a great shape, with the income they would have developed latest technologies to defend their Capital. They were able to hold on during 1453 while having a very low income from 3 regions (European part of Constantinople, Thessalonika, and the Morea/Peloponnese) the Empire of Trebizond and Principality of Theodoros were quite independant. Imagine now more men, more destructive technologies and reinforcements harassing the siegeing army
nice video but though the renaissance was triggered by ancient Greek philosophy, it was the Arabs (both Muslims and Jews ... Yes there are Jewish Arabs) that assisted in translating these ancient texts to Arabic and from these and through trade, the Arab cities in Spain and the crusades before that, much of Arab learning, medicine and technology was transferred to Europe thereby resulting in the Renaissance. The fall of Constantinople was also a reason but let's not forget the events of centuries before the mid 15th
The renaissance started in essence in 14th century in France and Italy. These two states in particular benefitted from the crusades in trade and cultural exchanges. Yes it was the Greek manuscripts that took Europe out of the dark ages, but it was Arab and Muslim scholars that translated these manuscripts into Arabic and henceforth into other languages. One famous Muslim was Avicenna.... It's true Baghdad was burnt by the Mongols but the Mongols were eventually beaten by the Muslim Mamelukes of Egypt in 1260. Just think what would have become of Europe, their final destination, had the Mongols succeded against the Mamelukes.
+Hani G. That might be plausible for Spain but even that is pusing it. The moors never made it France or even Andorra and there influence was hated for the seven centuries that they were there and then there was the inquisition. There were obviously affectations but much more minimal than they could have been.
+Hani G. Most jews won't consider themselves arabs. They preserved a lot of the classic greek literature Europe didn't care about, like Aristotle, and the medicine and other technologies would have been known by the Byzantines
You know, there was one other time before the Crusades and before the Ottomans that the walls of Constantinople were overcame. Sort of. The Varangian Knyaz of Kyiv Oleh (Or "Helgi" in Old Norse) was able to overcome the walls in 907. Well, okay, he didn't actually breach them, he just put wheels on his boats and had them rolled to the gates of Constantinople (because their ships were no match for the Byzantine navy) and managed to secure a favourable trade agreement, nailing his shield on the walls of Constantinople.
For those interested, some selected works of one (among many) prestigious and credible Historian regarding the Greek Byzantine Empire, Warren Treadgold, include; “A Concise History of Byzantium”, “A History of the Byzantine State and Society”, “Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081”, “The Byzantine Revival, 780-842”.
The Ottomans took over Constantinople and made it better than it ever was. They practised free religion, were seeking science to better the world, they protected woman gave them rights. They even treated gay people as their equal, something rarely seen even to this day. Even the Sultan self drew his sword and was one of the first men to enter the gap in the wall. Even going as far as to move their enormous fleet over land by pure man power, as the Romans blocked the waterways. Most of the inhabitants were happy the Ottomans took over Constantinople. What history has learned us by looking at Genghis Khan, Atilla the hun and Mehmed to conquerer you need a bit of crazy in you to be a great leader.
+The Shadow Why were they glad the Ottomans took Constantinople from their roman rulers? Especially considering noone is glad that a city is taken after a long siege because it results in a total sack, which leads to lots of people dead and people drained of wealth.
They didn't practice free religion they had a force conversion of the orthodox Christians to Islam and turned one of the worlds most beautiful cathedrals into a mosque
Michael Weir Because when the Ottomans came they brought a lot of jobs with them which in return accumulated wealth. They helped it grow again and protected the city. Before Constantinople was attacked numerous times by idiots who thought they could capture it. Once the Ottomans came they did not dare to touch it.
+Marcello Ruiz Well it was pretty neglected because they did not have the funding to look after it. Also I would argue that it is better this way. (edit) Also they did actually practice free religion. The rules regarding religion were pretty loose. The people 500 years ago had more rights regarding religion than for example the USA has today. Pretty interesting topic, I would recommend you read about it. They were very open-minded people.
+The Shadow What a totally unbiased and not at all one-sided view on a historic event. I bet the Turks didn't even kill anyone after the took the city, but gave everyone complimentary turbans. In fact, the citizens were probably so grateful to be forcefully taken over that they willingly converted to Islam. Probably even lended a hand to the reconstruction of the Hagia Sophia.
Attila the Hun, the scourge of God, took one look at them and turned Around. On the other hand, A 21 years old Boy took this challenge and became Mehmed the Conquerer . Now you can understand the quality, Courage,valor and confidence of this Teenager.
well that last few seconds was the most assumptious and misrepresentation of the past I have heard from this channel… people in Italy were starting to dabble a bit in the classics before the fall of constantinople… Plutarch is one example. The Catholic Church and its monks maintained multiple writings from the past.. maybe not studying them to the same extent but they were at least maintained. Many wealthy italians had their own libraries and collections of ancient manuscripts already too..
+dalevlog Thats kind of a theme in Lars Brownworth's works. He's written several books on Vikings and one on the Byzantine Emperors and through the Byzantine book, he is constantly sucking the dick of the Greeks talking up their GRAND CONTRIBUTION to western civilization. Lars is a fantastic story teller, but not quite an unbiased historian.
It might also help that there were Byzantine professors with schools in Italy before the fall, people are really downplaying the role of the Empire in the comment section here...
Many different things played a part in igniting the Renaissance. The fall of Constantinople is surely one of them, and because of story telling purposes, it is shown as the one great event that kick started a new era. Probably not entirely accurate historically, but good enough for an informative, rememerable and entertaining video for people who are not familiar with the background of these happenings and who might never even want to inform themselvels further afterwards.
FUN FACT: The double wall and moat defenses of Constantinople were the inspiration for the defenses of Winterfel in George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy novel series, A Song of Ice and Fire; and Greek Fire was in the inspiration for Wildfire. However, Winterfel's walls and Wildfire's potency were greatly increased for dramatic effect.
That's one part, but in this case, why didn't we enter in the renaissance in the 12th century if so ? They've done a great job, and the arabic science was great, but you can't forgot that much of the ancient knowledge, was also keep safe in constantinople, and wen constantinople was taken down, they take their books with them to italy, and that's a big part of the begining of renaissance. The migration of many constantinople literate to italy is a historical fact.
"We still have our classical past" thanks to Constantinople - and also because of the fact that Muslim scholars had been translating and preserving classical works for centuries.
The same muslims that destroyed the library of Alexandria saying "If it's already in the Quran, why should it exist, and if it's not, it should't exist."? Yeah right. Give me a break. Byzantines were the ones that preserved the ancient traditions of Greece and Rome, because they were the inheritors and the continuation of both cultures. Stop revising history.
but most of them were considered as apostates but thankfully the abbasids werent paying attention to the muslim imams . Note : the famous imam Ibn- taimia considered every one works with alchemy as an apostate
Bullcrap it was the roman army that destroyed the library of Alexandria by accident, if it's a source of knowledge there's no way we would destroy that
Thank you for reminding to the West how Byzantine scholars such as Ioannis Laskaris who saved 2000 greek manuscripts from occupied Greece and founded the Bibliothèque Nationale (previously Royale) de France launched the Renaissance.
You can understand The sultan allowed the scientists to go home and live in freedom. Also the people which live in Constantinople that time, come to be a citizen of ottoman , not killed.
In the context of the Balkans and Anatolia in the middle and early modern Ages 'Romans' could, of-course, include those other Orthodox groups that identified with the majority Greek-speakers but there is little doubt the term in those times, both as an endonym and exonymically, always conjured up images of Greek-speakers and as time progressed came to refer exclusively to them. It is not by coincidence that the Greeks can still call themselves as 'Romioi. No other Balkan group does this to my knowledge.
Don't get me wrong. Modern Greeks don't care to claim lineal (DNA) descent from the Romans. By no means. To Greeks, however, there is no doubt that the 'Byzantines' were the legitimate inheritors of the Roman Imperium - this from a legal/cultural perspective. It is from these 'Byzantines' that the modern Greeks actually claim descent.
Byzantine is a modern name for Romans of the medieval period, an attempt to differentiate between the early and late Roman epochs. The government and citizens called themselves Roman.
Beautiful conclusion. But we (Romanians, Bulgarians, all nations of past Yougoslavia, Hungary, Sycillia, Armenia, and some parts of North Africa - we all tried to resist to the powerfull impact of Ottomans - and some of us really did (Remember Dracula? Vlad Țepeș?) -all this time... The ancient greek culture and the greek language was not coming in Western Europe only after 1453. Thanks again for the good clip!
“With God’s help, we will restore the glory of the Greeks and our beloved homeland, for we are the descendants of the ancient Hellenes”. Excerpt from Heraclius’ speech after the Byzantine victory over the Persians, as recorded by Chronicler Theophanes the Confessor.
I genuinely believe to this day that these walls should be recognised as a world wonder of humanity. Not as incredible in beauty as the Colosseum or as majestic as the statue of Liberty. But a engineering and architetural masterpiece in city defense! 1000 years of conquest and the their fall literally marked the end of the medieval period and the end of one of the biggest and longest living empires of human history and its fall even sparked the rennesaince… Constantinople was truly the closest thing to a fantasy city. ‘Magical fire’ that didn’t extinguish. A massive chain to block off the gonden horn. One of the greatest churches/mosques ever build. An imperial palace and a moat that can be flooded. Its no wonder the vikings called it ‘Miklagaard’ the golden city
+Michael McNamara Ancient concoction of unknown ingredients that was used mostly in naval battles to set fire to enemy ships. It was likely a liquid, because it was projected out of a siphon after being ignited.
+Michael McNamara Think of it like the medieval Napalm. It cannot be put out by water or any other viable liquid. It is said that it could may be put off with urine and puke. Aside from that, it was the weapon the East Roman Empire used in naval skrimishes and in sieges as stated in this video. Although, the ironic thing about this weapon is that the emperors valued this weapon so much that they surrounded its "blueprints" in secrecy and darkness that eventually the Romans themselves didnt know how to build it again.
It was a liquid gelatinous substance with glue like properties so that it stuck to objects it came in contact with. It also burned intensely and underwater, so if you were hit with it it would burn through your armor with no hope of extinguishment. I've heard that some theorize it was made of pine resin and some other things but the only thing with modern technology that can replicate it is napalm mixed with thermite.
Well, He "built the city up" as in he took Byzantium and build it higher than it ever was before, so you could say he used Byzantium to "build" Constantinople.
dodo828 Only for the last century. Mehmed the Conqueror wanted to recapture the greatness of Rome so it remained Constantinople or Kostantiniyye until the Ottoman Empire was dissolved
+孙明亮 What if you dig the moat deeper and only partially fill it with water, so that you have to swim, but you couldn't easily send ladders or build siege towers. Best of both worlds. Planks could be destroyed fairly easily, though.
The renaissance wasn't triggered by the conquest of Constantinople but by the Islamic Golden Age. Not to mention Eastern Christians of Constantinople didn't migrate in the west because they were despised by the Western Christians, and furthermore they were allowed to live in relative freedom under the Ottomans, unlike in Italy for example where they would've been 3rd class citizens.
henryvagincourt It contained things like naphtha, quicklime and sulfur. All of these burn nicely, brightly and very hot and the naphtha means it can burn on water.
+henryvagincourt maybe it had its own oxidizer which could help explain how it burned so hot and how it burn after having water on it which would also explain its effectiveness in setting ships on fire in naval battles
The Turks are so fixated on calling Constantinople, Istanbul... Istanbul is a name composed by mutliple fused Greek words... is tin polin. Which means "to the city"
The Renaissance was ignited by the knowledge that was present in Andalusia, where back in the the day rich British, French and other European nobility would send their kids to learn.
It's not correct to say that Byzantines triggered Italian Renaissance in the first place. The process had spontaneusly begun in Italy, particularly Tuscany, since the XIV century, with Humanism. It was a growing interest for the study of the Roman past of the peninsula and the Humanae Litterae (the Latin literature not related with the Holy Scriptures, the Sacrae Litterae). Even the rediscovery of Ancient Greek in Italy predates the fall of Constantinople: Boccaccio was the first since centuries to learn it in Tuscany. It's true though that a lot of Greek manuscripts were brought to the peninsula in 1453, along with Bizantyne scholars.That actually gave the crucial impulse to the spread of the study of Greek letters, but it's anyway only a part of the whole Renaissance phenomenon, which was started by ITALY.
The city finally fell to the Ottomans.. A Greek soldier left a gate unlocked.... The way they avoided the walls was with their ships... They pushed them over the other bank (WERE TALKING HUGE SHIPS) and into the harbour (The harbour was protected by a large chain with no other entrance)
And it still standing, that theodosian walls are so great even in the modern day. I wish I had a time machine, even only to look at the glorious Constantinople at the golden age of Rome
Constantine 11 didn't jump right in, cannons didnt let the heretics in a greek soldier betrayed them, the muslims suffered more deaths, how the gulf chain was lost because that part is important on how the byzantine forces became complicated and scattered. And muslims desecrated the land.
Fleeing Byzantines were certainly not the greatest contributors to the commencement of the Italian Renaissance. The preservation of the works of the Classical Antiquity by Middle-Eastern scholars were probably the most essential factor.
Michael Jason Seibert Can't possibly disagree with that. But imagine the 17th century fathers of science didn't have the ancient sources on mathematics, which were delivered by Islamic scholars via the Italian Renaissance...
+Synochra Its an incredibly complicated question- "what started the Italian Renaissance" European governments were becoming more and more stable, allowing centralization. Trade was increasing to further and further lands, and with trade comes ideas. The prominent Muslim scholars at that time were among the most educated in the world. But then you have Byzantines rushing into Rome, their old brothers. And they brought with them *first-hand* accounts and knowledge of classical Greco-roman art, philosophy, law, etc. Obviously there isn't just one thing that sparked the Italian Renaissance, I'm sure every sane person can agree on that. But it might be just as futile to try and pick what/who had the largest contribution.
Mr. B teaches at my school, probably one of the smartest coolest teachers I know. Not to mention he left a great job to get paid next to nothing at my school, he's cool garbanzo beans
The attackers only tried to invade constanople because they were apart of the Roman Empire. If they weren't, we likely wouldn't have the Greek language or some history of the empire, but if the Roman Empire gave the books and literature to the creators of constanople they could have kept the city almost a secret and the area around constanople could have been much more intelligent (I'm not saying that they aren't now though).
Only reason classical culture remains is because the early muslims have translated everything into arabic when they were forgotten,and later through andalus(spain) it spread back to europe.Abbasid Caliphate has more credits then anyone for the preservation of classical greek roman culture.
I'd actually agree. But it would be a dishonest to credit all muslims with this. Muslims should learn from the muslims of the Islamic Golden Age, they were intellctuals, tolerating, debating every qeustion or doubt and very rational. Unlike the wide spread islamic fundamentalism of today that brings only destruction.
Of course that era muslims were actually tolerant,they even wrote poems about homosexuality and didnt get prosecuted at all.I came into conclusion that development comes with tolerence,whatever your religion and that time islamic geography was the tolerent one.
because constantinople reminds to the westerns that they needed to steal in order to prevail and it also reminds to the greeks they could never free their capital.
I love it, everything about Constantinople. If I had a chance to travel to the past my first wish above all would be go to Constantinople in it's golden age. The byzantine empire and (a lot less) the ottoman empire were my favorite part of history in medieval>modern age. I kinda wish Constantinople had never fallen, it would be such a beautiful greek city nowdays...
There's one major flaw at the end... The reintroduction of Hellenic culture to Western Europe already occurred before the fall of Constantinople. Hellenic culture was re-introduced to the Middle East through the conquest of Iran in the 7th century, and was spread back to the West via centuries of Islamic conquest.
well, some Constantine scholars contributed to the renaissance, but interaction with Moorish Spain, Egypt, and the middle east probably did more to transmit greek science and learning
I assumed my monitor was dirty lol
+FNA Yeah I was trying to wipe it off the whole time
+FNA same
This is none of your business
A. Tuğrul Aydın I think you commented on the wrong post.
i m sorry
Romulus would be proud how the last Romans and their Emperor died fighting for their last city.
+Jack Cliff Don't think so. Romulus wouldn't be proud about a child-king displaced by his own guard and so happened to have his name.If you are talking about constantine and his people, they were greeks.I guess they made proud their own ancestors
+kost pap
What we call the Byzantine Empire was the Roman Empire to everyone other than the Papacy and HRE, both of whose powers were reliant on denying the Empire its Roman identity. To everyone else, it was the Roman Empire-and it remained so till the end. Constantine XI Palaiologus did not resign and slink away like Romulus Augustus, he stayed and died fighting for Constantinople till the very end. The Byzantine Empire was made up of Roman Citizens (since 212), had a recognized Roman Emperor at its helm from 285 and thus was a pretty old entity when the Western Empire fell. The Byzantines continuously held on to the Roman identity (unlike West Europe) and fought to the end to defend it. They were the last Romans, contrary to what popular misconceptions may suggest. - A very good answer from Diptarka Hait on Quora.
Did you know when Ceasar was stabbed by Brutus he did not say Et Tu Brute, he said in greek: “Kai su, teknon?” (according to Suetonius). The phrase means “You too, child?”.
Jack Cliff As for Constantine, I know how he died. I was not reffering to him, but to romulus augustilus. Indeed the roman empire was made up of roman citizens, but this entity was political,in order to serve a multicultural empire. But when the western part fell,as well as egypt and syria, the remaining terrirories comprised mostly of the helladic world, with most of his inhabitants to be greek or greekspeaking. As a result, what was a multicultural state, became the closest medieval example to what we call today a nation-state. As Constantine said "...let them know,that they are not fighting with animals without logic, like them, but with lords and rulers, descendants of Greeks and Romans[...]We should sacrifice even our lives to save the queen of cities, the country and shelter of christendom, the hope and joy of all greeks" (George Sfrantzes, the Small Chronicon)"
+Jack Cliff I'm pretty sure Romulus is just a myth.
Jack Cliff Not romans Byzantium. It is different the Romans had roman culture and the Byzantines had Greek culture and where Greeks.
Constantine must've been like, "We are going to build a wall, and we'll make the Huns pay for it!"
dude stfu
They built the wars before the Huns and Huns didn't have a currency or a country
Lol ironic how you have the flag of constantinople that the turks stole for their own.
Also why do you people think Trump made every wall and all walls have the same purpose?
+HDMI is life
No. The Turkish Flag was from the Ottoman Empire Arms Flag. 3 Crescent moon flag. It was used even before Constantinople was taken
The City of walls? You mean, Ba Sing Se?
+Pedro Vieira Thats the Impenetrable city
+Pedro Vieira I remembered Ba Sing Se when he mentioned the inner wall.
The walls of Ba Sing Se were based on the Theodosian Walls of Constantinople. One of the animators did mention that they designed the walls based on a combination of The Great Wall of China and Constantinople.
+Arthas Menethil Cool, never knew that
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Yes, but did they find titans in the walls?
Omar Explains the titan lost to the human they said that Arab Turk Europe fought together and won or all life would be doomed if we fought our selfs
Wall Maria rose and sheena are toothpaste compare to these ones.
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😂 good one! Wait, you are joking right!?
who thought it was a good idea to make it look like the viewers screens are all dirty?
a monster that wants to watch the world burn in an unextinguishable fire
Me!!!
Yes, I tried to wipe it off the screen and TH-cam crashed!
I was literally wiping my screen
I know right.
The story of the Turks overcoming that wall is not complete, and it is a great story. The teller stopped telling the story in best part of it !!
the Turks literally drove their boats on the land getting into the golden horn.
yaaaasss and that's awesome
+TheManWhoDoubts
First of all, moving boats over land as a military maneuver wasn't that uncommon.
Second of all, the fall of Constantinople is an entire story unto itself.
Nipah Auauau Well, I didn't say it's common or not. I said it's the best part of it...In my opinion !
Steven Betchel savages in your subjective opinion. At that time, they had a technological advantage.
Steven Betchel They took a considerable part of Europe. Nobody stays the best for ever.
*sniff *sniff i kind of want to go play eu4 byzantium now.
+Choodel Larker Me too! eu4 based high five
MrCalls1 lol
+Choodel Larker but playing Byzantium is so frustrating..... stupid green blop.....
+Choodel Larker Play Crusader Kings II instead, you can convert the file to EUIV once you've reached 1444 and are done restoring the roman empire for an insanely OP game start.
+Choodel Larker I prefer Crusader Kings 2 myself =)
My mother being from Istanbul, and my family visiting it every year, this video was absolutely brilliant for me. It's amazing to really know the history of the city.
The history of the city your ancestors conquered, you mean 😏😏
Fun Fact: The "Ottoman Cannon" or Dardanelles gun was invented by a Hungarian.
Now that I think about it, If the 4th crusade hadn't happened, the Byzantines might have been wealthy enough to purchase the cannon and retake their land with cutting edge technology. So i suppose you can weigh the options: Europe flourishing into the renaissance using the remnants of the byzantine empire, or the Roman empire still existing, most likely to today even.
i think the Hungarian went to the roman emperor first and was rejected and then went to the turks and they accepted
@@pedropedrohan102 he was rejected because the Byzantines didn’t have the cash for it.
@@pedropedrohan102it's true, the Byzantine couldn't /wouldn't pay for it at that point
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@@Manieditssz you smell
Hearing the "Byzantines" be called by their proper historical name, Romans, was a healing and refreshing experience lol
Byzantium is not propaganda's product, it was invented because Roman could confuse people. I think it would be better to keep the exonym.
Romans was a political term. Easterm roman empire was a greek empire
@@Komdwy A Greek speaking Roman is still a Roman.
Please use the metric system.
+B6611 Thank god someone said it. There's no reason to not use it always.
No, just use Imperial: God bless America
B6611 There are more Americans that watched this video then any other country so fuck you and your metric system
Do you have any proof of this American statement
Jankels statistics
Subscribed because you call Byzantines "Romans". Great work.
but they were romans werent they, in fact, one of the names of the greeks today is romans. the byzantine empire was nothing more than a roman state, christian in religion, greek in culture.
Yes, that is what I'm saying, calling them Byzantines is very ahistoric, since they were the heirs of the Roman State, that's why I gave this video a thumbs up, for calling them Romans.Stavros Vasileiadis
when I look at Byzantine Architecture, I see an extension of Roman Architecture. ...with the fall, the construction tradition died.....meanwhile, when the renaissance did come, it was a total disconnect from Byzantine and a rather backwards attempt at pass glory, and a reaction to Gothic, which I find far more interesting...a totally new style.
Ramón Cárdenas i unsubed for that
They were not the heirs of the Roman state they were the Roman state.
One of the best TED-ED to date! I will use this to teach Byzantium and Ottomans in my upcoming unit on Anatolia. Thanks!
The turks didn't destroy the byzantine empire, the fourth crusade did, all the turks did was defeat the remnants. The sword of chistendom fell upon it's shield and Rome crumbled as a result.
Excommunicated crusade.
The fourth crusade sacked Constantinople but never breached the walls, there was no need to since the Byzantines let them in on their own
Atakan Remzi Dezkaya Eh no the byzantine emnpire lasted for centruies after Manzikert. The komnenoi were even doing a fairy good job on taking it back before they lost the throne.
so did the ottoman empire after the second vienna siege that doesn't mean it didn't break it and fucked up the empire
Atakan Remzi Dezkaya Hurt it yes break it no. After the sack of Constantinople there was no return for the byzantine empire.
But can the walls defend against a colossal titan
Does napalm can melt down colossal titans?
I think it can.
Can it stop illegal Mexicans from getting in either?
+Asy B Attack on titan ayyyy
Don't worry he'll only toe poke a hole that eren can block with a boulder.
Nah,just look at the S2 ED.Human wall get f**ked by normal Titan swimming from the sea.
Trump should watch this
ya a wall that withstood onslaught for a thousand years.
***** and where is the source?
came for this
so he could see a wall that stood up for more than a millennia?
***** You are a very polite muslim.
You forgotten how the Venetian 4th crusade took the city by going over the shorter sea walls and how the Empire of Nicaea recaptured it from the Latins in 1261 via secrete passage while the Latin garrison was out raiding the Nicaean island of Daphnousia.
It was the Nicaens city so its alright if they knew about the secret passages.
still nobody breached the theodosian wall until the turks. This video is about the wall, not the hole city.
Yeah there was so much over-simplification that it was more misleading than informative. Shouldn't have expected more from a TH-cam video.
"If they have a greatest walls of the world we must prepare biggest canon of history."
-Mehmet The Conqueror (He was 21 when conquered the byzantine empire. And the "Şahi Canons" designed by him in person.)
aaand built by the hungarians
These are the famous Theodosian walls, and they protected an empire that waxed and waned, but lasted 1100 years.
For an exciting, page-turning history, see John Julius Norwich's 'A Short History of Byzantium', a shortened version of his own three-volume work. Never a dull moment.
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.Why they changed it, I can't say. (People just liked it better that way.)
it was sold/taken from the dutch by the english
u idiot... the English owned the Dutch Trading Co... its 2 fool dummies like u!
The land was promised to Duke of York.
It's a song you walnuts.
(Istanbul not constantinople) They might be giants
Not entirely accurate. The fall of constantinople did not "ignite the renaissance", it did however give the renaissance more fuel. The renaissance actually started around the late 13th early 14th century in Florence.
The Byzantine had their renaissance much earlier than the west. Around the 9th century, the interest in ancient science started to spread across the empire. When the 4th crusade looted the city in 1204 they took a lot of the knowledge back to Italy.
Dude, how long do you think Constantinople was under siege? The people who could read the writing on the wall had likely been fleeing for 100 years prior to the fall of the city.
Wow, that's so fascinating! I love how the self-proclaimed 'Scourge of God' looked @ those walls, & just turned around
The guy that made this video, Lars Brownworth, has a 17 episode podcast series about the Byzantine Empire titled '12 Byzantine Rulers: The History of the Byzantine Empire'. I highly recommend it for more information about that time period and Constantinople from this very same person. It's a shame they didn't link it in the video description.
Doomed City? It remained the seat of one of the most powerful empires in the world for 700 years!
That empire stopped being the most powerul like 200 years after the initial conquest, don't stretch it.
300 years at least, credit where its due please!
? in 1753 it was already considred backwards and it was falling apart, economy was shit. Sultans were confined to the harem and more.. 1683 marks the stop of expansion so 200 years is not far off the answer.
They got their ass handed to them on multiple occasions, essentially they never truly won any war against a european power. Elliot Hobbs
Martin Luther's own words. "...Only count up his lands, dear sir. He has Greece, Asia, Syria, Egypt, Arabia, etc., that is, he has so many lands that if Spain, France, England, Germany, Italy, Bohemia, Hungary, Poland, and Denmark were all counted together, they would not equal the land he has. Besides, he is master of all of them and commands effective and ready obedience. And, as has been said, they are constantly under arms and are exercised in warfare, so that he has staying-power, and can deliver two, three, four battles, one after another, as he showed against the Sultan. This Gog and Magog is a different kind of majesty than our kings and princes..."
Incorrect: the strait of Bosporus separates the two continents, the two parts of the ancient world. Since remote times, that line of water has been the border of Europa from the Orient. So yes, Constantinople is in the West: as a matter of fact, it's its most remote yet crucial bastion as it was in 1453.
Never tought about Constantinople this way. You made me curious about that city in their times. Thank you.
Fun fact, this guy was my Western Civilization teacher my freshman year of high school!
0:38 we'll never hear THAT again
“cultured, wealthy, and still stable East.”
Dave Well I thought that, that was hilarious.
😂😂...so true. But if you about it. The East was the stable cultured and wealthy part of Europe/Mediterranean/middle East for much of the time. The West holding those titles for a small amount of time. Is just us living today seeing it weird
At the beginning of the video (0:13), you can see the Black Sea on the right side of the map. To the left of the Black sea, there is a lake visible, which has a rhomboid/diamond shape. This lake is also visible from 0:31 to 0:50, and again from 03:37 up until 03:51. The question is - What's the name of the lake?
It's a non existent lake. I don't know why it's there
I don’t know either. Could have been a lake that existed back then, but now drained?
I think it's Lake Varna but it's visualized a lot larger than it actually is.
3:21 a true hero!
Attilla: Behold, it is I! Scourge of...
Bob: Hey boss, those walls look pretty tall.
Attilla: Don't interrupt me! _clears throat_ It it I! Scour...
Bob: And that moat, is that water burning?
Attilla: Yeah, so what? I'm the scourge of god!
awkward silence
Bob: Maybe we should go pillage another city.
Attilla: Yeah... You're probably right.
*invading army turns around and leaves*
Without the 4th "Crusade" im sure Constantinople would have lasted at least 2 more centuries if not 600 centuries more in a great shape, with the income they would have developed latest technologies to defend their Capital. They were able to hold on during 1453 while having a very low income from 3 regions (European part of Constantinople, Thessalonika, and the Morea/Peloponnese) the Empire of Trebizond and Principality of Theodoros were quite independant. Imagine now more men, more destructive technologies and reinforcements harassing the siegeing army
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nice video but though the renaissance was triggered by ancient Greek philosophy, it was the Arabs (both Muslims and Jews ... Yes there are Jewish Arabs) that assisted in translating these ancient texts to Arabic and from these and through trade, the Arab cities in Spain and the crusades before that, much of Arab learning, medicine and technology was transferred to Europe thereby resulting in the Renaissance. The fall of Constantinople was also a reason but let's not forget the events of centuries before the mid 15th
The renaissance started in essence in 14th century in France and Italy. These two states in particular benefitted from the crusades in trade and cultural exchanges. Yes it was the Greek manuscripts that took Europe out of the dark ages, but it was Arab and Muslim scholars that translated these manuscripts into Arabic and henceforth into other languages. One famous Muslim was Avicenna....
It's true Baghdad was burnt by the Mongols but the Mongols were eventually beaten by the Muslim Mamelukes of Egypt in 1260. Just think what would have become of Europe, their final destination, had the Mongols succeded against the Mamelukes.
+Hani G. Is Avicenna the same as Ibn Sina the Persian?
+blackcat3467 yes same person exactly
+Hani G. That might be plausible for Spain but even that is pusing it. The moors never made it France or even Andorra and there influence was hated for the seven centuries that they were there and then there was the inquisition. There were obviously affectations but much more minimal than they could have been.
+Hani G. Most jews won't consider themselves arabs. They preserved a lot of the classic greek literature Europe didn't care about, like Aristotle, and the medicine and other technologies would have been known by the Byzantines
You know, there was one other time before the Crusades and before the Ottomans that the walls of Constantinople were overcame. Sort of. The Varangian Knyaz of Kyiv Oleh (Or "Helgi" in Old Norse) was able to overcome the walls in 907. Well, okay, he didn't actually breach them, he just put wheels on his boats and had them rolled to the gates of Constantinople (because their ships were no match for the Byzantine navy) and managed to secure a favourable trade agreement, nailing his shield on the walls of Constantinople.
The Ruthenians were cunts that way. They never wanted land. They just wrecked shit for more money.
For those interested, some selected works of one (among many) prestigious and credible Historian regarding the Greek Byzantine Empire, Warren Treadgold, include;
“A Concise History of Byzantium”,
“A History of the Byzantine State and Society”,
“Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081”,
“The Byzantine Revival, 780-842”.
The Ottomans took over Constantinople and made it better than it ever was. They practised free religion, were seeking science to better the world, they protected woman gave them rights. They even treated gay people as their equal, something rarely seen even to this day. Even the Sultan self drew his sword and was one of the first men to enter the gap in the wall. Even going as far as to move their enormous fleet over land by pure man power, as the Romans blocked the waterways. Most of the inhabitants were happy the Ottomans took over Constantinople. What history has learned us by looking at Genghis Khan, Atilla the hun and Mehmed to conquerer you need a bit of crazy in you to be a great leader.
+The Shadow Why were they glad the Ottomans took Constantinople from their roman rulers? Especially considering noone is glad that a city is taken after a long siege because it results in a total sack, which leads to lots of people dead and people drained of wealth.
They didn't practice free religion they had a force conversion of the orthodox Christians to Islam and turned one of the worlds most beautiful cathedrals into a mosque
Michael Weir Because when the Ottomans came they brought a lot of jobs with them which in return accumulated wealth. They helped it grow again and protected the city. Before Constantinople was attacked numerous times by idiots who thought they could capture it. Once the Ottomans came they did not dare to touch it.
+Marcello Ruiz Well it was pretty neglected because they did not have the funding to look after it. Also I would argue that it is better this way.
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Also they did actually practice free religion. The rules regarding religion were pretty loose. The people 500 years ago had more rights regarding religion than for example the USA has today. Pretty interesting topic, I would recommend you read about it. They were very open-minded people.
+The Shadow What a totally unbiased and not at all one-sided view on a historic event. I bet the Turks didn't even kill anyone after the took the city, but gave everyone complimentary turbans. In fact, the citizens were probably so grateful to be forcefully taken over that they willingly converted to Islam. Probably even lended a hand to the reconstruction of the Hagia Sophia.
Attila the Hun, the scourge of God, took one look at them and turned Around.
On the other hand, A 21 years old Boy took this challenge and became Mehmed the Conquerer .
Now you can understand the quality, Courage,valor and confidence of this Teenager.
150.000 ottomans against a rotting empire of 8.000 soldiers guarding it.
He had cannons….Atilla did not.
well that last few seconds was the most assumptious and misrepresentation of the past I have heard from this channel… people in Italy were starting to dabble a bit in the classics before the fall of constantinople… Plutarch is one example. The Catholic Church and its monks maintained multiple writings from the past.. maybe not studying them to the same extent but they were at least maintained. Many wealthy italians had their own libraries and collections of ancient manuscripts already too..
+dalevlog Thats kind of a theme in Lars Brownworth's works. He's written several books on Vikings and one on the Byzantine Emperors and through the Byzantine book, he is constantly sucking the dick of the Greeks talking up their GRAND CONTRIBUTION to western civilization.
Lars is a fantastic story teller, but not quite an unbiased historian.
It might also help that there were Byzantine professors with schools in Italy before the fall, people are really downplaying the role of the Empire in the comment section here...
maybe people saw that constantinopol was doomed to be sacked so fled earlier?
Many different things played a part in igniting the Renaissance.
The fall of Constantinople is surely one of them, and because of story telling purposes, it is shown as the one great event that kick started a new era. Probably not entirely accurate historically, but good enough for an informative, rememerable and entertaining video for people who are not familiar with the background of these happenings and who might never even want to inform themselvels further afterwards.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Plutarch did not dabble in classics - he was one of the classics
FUN FACT: The double wall and moat defenses of Constantinople were the inspiration for the defenses of Winterfel in George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy novel series, A Song of Ice and Fire; and Greek Fire was in the inspiration for Wildfire. However, Winterfel's walls and Wildfire's potency were greatly increased for dramatic effect.
This was amazing!
Thank-you so much!
Greeks and Latins. Thank those guys for everything you have and use everyday.
This is trump's dream city....
Wtf?
That's one part, but in this case, why didn't we enter in the renaissance in the 12th century if so ? They've done a great job, and the arabic science was great, but you can't forgot that much of the ancient knowledge, was also keep safe in constantinople, and wen constantinople was taken down, they take their books with them to italy, and that's a big part of the begining of renaissance. The migration of many constantinople literate to italy is a historical fact.
"We still have our classical past" thanks to Constantinople - and also because of the fact that Muslim scholars had been translating and preserving classical works for centuries.
Zach Vayo Well now they don't seem to like it that much anymore...
The same muslims that destroyed the library of Alexandria saying "If it's already in the Quran, why should it exist, and if it's not, it should't exist."? Yeah right. Give me a break. Byzantines were the ones that preserved the ancient traditions of Greece and Rome, because they were the inheritors and the continuation of both cultures. Stop revising history.
but most of them were considered as apostates but thankfully the abbasids werent paying attention to the muslim imams .
Note : the famous imam Ibn- taimia considered every one works with alchemy as an apostate
Bullcrap it was the roman army that destroyed the library of Alexandria by accident, if it's a source of knowledge there's no way we would destroy that
I think it was rebuilt
I am so grateful that I come from the country that has the privilege to own these rich historic
lands
Thank you for reminding to the West how Byzantine scholars such as Ioannis Laskaris who saved 2000 greek manuscripts from occupied Greece and founded the Bibliothèque Nationale (previously Royale) de France launched the Renaissance.
Lars is great! He's got a cookie podcasts that are a must for history lovers.
A couple podcasts not cookies no
Okay, so would you please stop with those damn imperial units already?
vukashin88 CUSTOMARY UNITS, CUUSTOMARY, AM I THE ONLY ONE WHITE GET'S THAT!?!?
vukashin88 MAYBE THEY'RE AMERICAN, GODDAMMIT, WHAT DOES IT TAKE FOR PEOPLE TO GET THAT!?
FUCKING WHO, PIECE OF SHIT PHONE!
vukashin88 thank u agreed
Kevin Shaw okay buddy, some mental help should do wonders
I have a stress lump in my throat , such a beautiful wall
I think he talks too much about greek fire.
It really was ahead of its time..
+Dario S. Orange juice, gasoline and Styrofoam.
Dario S. They had OJ and styrafoam though, right? XD
+Nugget Lord And who made this liquid fire?Greek engineer,And Greek fire or Liquid Fire was used only by Byzantines otherwise Greeks.
Αλφα Ωμεγα So?
thank you, you made me clean my screen for 4 minutes
So starts the Renaissance in Italy... And ezio auditore is born.
#video game based history
You can understand The sultan allowed the scientists to go home and live in freedom. Also the people which live in Constantinople that time, come to be a citizen of ottoman , not killed.
The greeks never seize to amaze me ❤️🇬🇷
A good pun is its own reword.
history is so cool, never knew about this fascinating bit of history. crazy
Romans = Byzantines = Greeks = Ancestors of Modern Greeks
In the context of the Balkans and Anatolia in the middle and early modern Ages 'Romans' could, of-course, include those other Orthodox groups that identified with the majority Greek-speakers but there is little doubt the term in those times, both as an endonym and exonymically, always conjured up images of Greek-speakers and as time progressed came to refer exclusively to them. It is not by coincidence that the Greeks can still call themselves as 'Romioi. No other Balkan group does this to my knowledge.
Don't get me wrong. Modern Greeks don't care to claim lineal (DNA) descent from the Romans. By no means. To Greeks, however, there is no doubt that the 'Byzantines' were the legitimate inheritors of the Roman Imperium - this from a legal/cultural perspective. It is from these 'Byzantines' that the modern Greeks actually claim descent.
Bulgarian Fascist,Russia a great power ''liberate'' your country too.
Byzantine is a modern name for Romans of the medieval period, an attempt to differentiate between the early and late Roman epochs. The government and citizens called themselves Roman.
Yup! Part of the reason why Romania is still called Romania: Land of the Romans, or Roman Land.
Beautiful conclusion. But we (Romanians, Bulgarians, all nations of past Yougoslavia, Hungary, Sycillia, Armenia, and some parts of North Africa - we all tried to resist to the powerfull impact of Ottomans - and some of us really did (Remember Dracula? Vlad Țepeș?) -all this time... The ancient greek culture and the greek language was not coming in Western Europe only after 1453.
Thanks again for the good clip!
God bless the Greeks
God doesn't exist and soon Greeks won't exist either. Ottoman 2016
we existed long before you did and we will still be around when you disappear, wherever barbaric shithole you come from.
Θεόδωρος Ράκκας Lmaoing at your pathetic greek ass. Greeks were living in the caves when my ancestors built the city of Uruk.
lol sooo what are you Sumerian... they do not exist any more ? and btw there are cities in Greece dating from 5000 bc, namely Sesklo in Thessaly...
Θεόδωρος Ράκκας Yeah mine are older so suck that
“With God’s help, we will restore the glory of the Greeks and our beloved homeland, for we are the descendants of the ancient Hellenes”.
Excerpt from Heraclius’ speech after the Byzantine victory over the Persians, as recorded by Chronicler Theophanes the Confessor.
the lack of information for dramatic effect :/
I genuinely believe to this day that these walls should be recognised as a world wonder of humanity. Not as incredible in beauty as the Colosseum or as majestic as the statue of Liberty. But a engineering and architetural masterpiece in city defense!
1000 years of conquest and the their fall literally marked the end of the medieval period and the end of one of the biggest and longest living empires of human history and its fall even sparked the rennesaince…
Constantinople was truly the closest thing to a fantasy city. ‘Magical fire’ that didn’t extinguish. A massive chain to block off the gonden horn. One of the greatest churches/mosques ever build. An imperial palace and a moat that can be flooded. Its no wonder the vikings called it ‘Miklagaard’ the golden city
OK... what the fuck is Greek fire?
+Michael McNamara
Ancient concoction of unknown ingredients that was used mostly in naval battles to set fire to enemy ships. It was likely a liquid, because it was projected out of a siphon after being ignited.
+Michael McNamara Think of it like the medieval Napalm. It cannot be put out by water or any other viable liquid. It is said that it could may be put off with urine and puke. Aside from that, it was the weapon the East Roman Empire used in naval skrimishes and in sieges as stated in this video. Although, the ironic thing about this weapon is that the emperors valued this weapon so much that they surrounded its "blueprints" in secrecy and darkness that eventually the Romans themselves didnt know how to build it again.
equavelant of wildfire from game of thrones.
It was a liquid gelatinous substance with glue like properties so that it stuck to objects it came in contact with. It also burned intensely and underwater, so if you were hit with it it would burn through your armor with no hope of extinguishment. I've heard that some theorize it was made of pine resin and some other things but the only thing with modern technology that can replicate it is napalm mixed with thermite.
+Greek Patriot why is it called greek fire if it was used by the romans?
Anyone here after watching netflix: ottoman rise of the empire? It was marvelous and charles dance narrated well. I really loved it.
Damn man the fall of Constantinople always makes me hella sad
Indeed. The fall of the Venetian Republic is another sad story. A thousand year old republic fell to satisfy the ego of Napoleon Bonaparte.
That was spectacular.
He did not BUILD THE CITY HE REVAMPED BYZANTIUM Gosh
Well, He "built the city up" as in he took Byzantium and build it higher than it ever was before, so you could say he used Byzantium to "build" Constantinople.
I have only one word, epic!!!!!
Istanbul
Nah
Constantinople
Yes
TheDiamondStar it's officially Istanbul. It's no longer your city so Turks have the right to name it.
dodo828 Only for the last century. Mehmed the Conqueror wanted to recapture the greatness of Rome so it remained Constantinople or Kostantiniyye until the Ottoman Empire was dissolved
TheDiamondStar its conspantinople yes istanbul no carigrad yes
Volvograde.. nah Stalingrad.. yes
Carigrad - the city of the emperor
Beautiful video. Concise and moving.
Just not factual and too biased.
What if, dig the moat deeper and don't fill it with water.
Planks, ladders and siege towers
+孙明亮 What if you dig the moat deeper and only partially fill it with water, so that you have to swim, but you couldn't easily send ladders or build siege towers. Best of both worlds. Planks could be destroyed fairly easily, though.
+Colton Byrd Having it filled with water is still better. Greek fire floats.
+Colton Byrd Leave it mostly empty, then flood it when they enter.
Kevin McCondichie
Then set the water to fire...... Lava 😱
The renaissance wasn't triggered by the conquest of Constantinople but by the Islamic Golden Age.
Not to mention Eastern Christians of Constantinople didn't migrate in the west because they were despised by the Western Christians, and furthermore they were allowed to live in relative freedom under the Ottomans, unlike in Italy for example where they would've been 3rd class citizens.
Greek fire burning under water? It was the single old wall that was breached, not the triple defence wall.
Do you actually know what Greek fire was?
***** I have an idea, but we still don't know the make-up or Greek Fire.
henryvagincourt It contained things like naphtha, quicklime and sulfur. All of these burn nicely, brightly and very hot and the naphtha means it can burn on water.
***** Naphtha is Greek, we understand now as flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures, I understand on water maybe, under water certainly not.
+henryvagincourt maybe it had its own oxidizer which could help explain how it burned so hot and how it burn after having water on it which would also explain its effectiveness in setting ships on fire in naval battles
The Turks are so fixated on calling Constantinople, Istanbul...
Istanbul is a name composed by mutliple fused Greek words... is tin polin. Which means "to the city"
The last "Roman" emperor indedified himself as Greek, King of Greeks and Romans.
Ottoman emperors also indedified themselves roman
This is my history teacher guys
dam Mongolians, breaking my city wall!!!!
lol ottoman empire breaking the city dude. learn hard again history, Peace :)
It's a South Park reference.
THANK YOU.
the mogols tried though but i'm not sure about that
+David Palazov Turks from Turkey are barely from Central Asia. most Persians are more Turkic than us
Thank you for the Romanian subtitles.
you forgot to mention the marine defence. I think it was marvellous too!
The Renaissance was ignited by the knowledge that was present in Andalusia, where back in the the day rich British, French and other European nobility would send their kids to learn.
You see they had walls and they had no mexicans
It's not correct to say that Byzantines triggered Italian Renaissance in the first place. The process had spontaneusly begun in Italy, particularly Tuscany, since the XIV century, with Humanism. It was a growing interest for the study of the Roman past of the peninsula and the Humanae Litterae (the Latin literature not related with the Holy Scriptures, the Sacrae Litterae). Even the rediscovery of Ancient Greek in Italy predates the fall of Constantinople: Boccaccio was the first since centuries to learn it in Tuscany. It's true though that a lot of Greek manuscripts were brought to the peninsula in 1453, along with Bizantyne scholars.That actually gave the crucial impulse to the spread of the study of Greek letters, but it's anyway only a part of the whole Renaissance phenomenon, which was started by ITALY.
The city finally fell to the Ottomans.. A Greek soldier left a gate unlocked.... The way they avoided the walls was with their ships... They pushed them over the other bank (WERE TALKING HUGE SHIPS) and into the harbour (The harbour was protected by a large chain with no other entrance)
And it still standing, that theodosian walls are so great even in the modern day.
I wish I had a time machine, even only to look at the glorious Constantinople at the golden age of Rome
Lessons worth sharing? How about inaccuracies worth some more time revising?
What inaccuracies? Im a historian and this is pretty tight
Oswaldo Antonio this had inaccuracy.
Planet KC like which one? I know the work of Lars, he is tight
Constantine 11 didn't jump right in, cannons didnt let the heretics in a greek soldier betrayed them, the muslims suffered more deaths, how the gulf chain was lost because that part is important on how the byzantine forces became complicated and scattered. And muslims desecrated the land.
Planet KC romans* there is archeological evidence in how the cannon tired the walls and the historiography doesn't point at anything else :)
The purpose was to show that Constantinople had the best siege defences of any ancient and medieval culture.
Fleeing Byzantines were certainly not the greatest contributors to the commencement of the Italian Renaissance. The preservation of the works of the Classical Antiquity by Middle-Eastern scholars were probably the most essential factor.
+Synochra The Byzantines had manuscripts that the Middle Easterners lacked. Plus, they are in the original Greek.
Michael Jason Seibert Can't possibly disagree with that. But imagine the 17th century fathers of science didn't have the ancient sources on mathematics, which were delivered by Islamic scholars via the Italian Renaissance...
***** The Byzantines had many wonderful things, most of which simply weren't that present in the west. I may be wrong here, but others say the same.
+Synochra and mostly the wealth of venice
+Synochra Its an incredibly complicated question- "what started the Italian Renaissance"
European governments were becoming more and more stable, allowing centralization.
Trade was increasing to further and further lands, and with trade comes ideas.
The prominent Muslim scholars at that time were among the most educated in the world.
But then you have Byzantines rushing into Rome, their old brothers. And they brought with them *first-hand* accounts and knowledge of classical Greco-roman art, philosophy, law, etc.
Obviously there isn't just one thing that sparked the Italian Renaissance, I'm sure every sane person can agree on that. But it might be just as futile to try and pick what/who had the largest contribution.
“Welcome to the wall gang”
-Constantinople
What I find funny is that the crusaders sacked city I. Their way to the Middle East, so technically it did fall twice
Mr. B teaches at my school, probably one of the smartest coolest teachers I know. Not to mention he left a great job to get paid next to nothing at my school, he's cool garbanzo beans
Valyrian fire?
The attackers only tried to invade constanople because they were apart of the Roman Empire. If they weren't, we likely wouldn't have the Greek language or some history of the empire, but if the Roman Empire gave the books and literature to the creators of constanople they could have kept the city almost a secret and the area around constanople could have been much more intelligent (I'm not saying that they aren't now though).
Arabs tried to conquer this city twice but all failed.
then the Ottomans arrived
Nah, it was crusader did it first
It blows my mind that Mehmad II was just 21 years old when Constantinople was conquered.
@@kostas0352 dang Crusaders
Only reason classical culture remains is because the early muslims have translated everything into arabic when they were forgotten,and later through andalus(spain) it spread back to europe.Abbasid Caliphate has more credits then anyone for the preservation of classical greek roman culture.
I'd actually agree. But it would be a dishonest to credit all muslims with this. Muslims should learn from the muslims of the Islamic Golden Age, they were intellctuals, tolerating, debating every qeustion or doubt and very rational. Unlike the wide spread islamic fundamentalism of today that brings only destruction.
Of course that era muslims were actually tolerant,they even wrote poems about homosexuality and didnt get prosecuted at all.I came into conclusion that development comes with tolerence,whatever your religion and that time islamic geography was the tolerent one.
Glad we agree on this one, brother :)
arabs mainly translated aristotle. byzantines translated everything they could touch.
Yeah they did it much better than the Greek-Romans did
Why whenever a video about the fall Constantinople is made does it bring out so much hate? It happened hundreds of years ago.
because constantinople reminds to the westerns that they needed to steal in order to prevail and it also reminds to the greeks they could never free their capital.
Stavros Vasileiadis
Poor greek. They always keep daydreaming.
Btw dont forget to pay your debt.:D
I love it, everything about Constantinople. If I had a chance to travel to the past my first wish above all would be go to Constantinople in it's golden age. The byzantine empire and (a lot less) the ottoman empire were my favorite part of history in medieval>modern age. I kinda wish Constantinople had never fallen, it would be such a beautiful greek city nowdays...
But it continued to fluorish in beautiful ways thereafter!
There's one major flaw at the end... The reintroduction of Hellenic culture to Western Europe already occurred before the fall of Constantinople. Hellenic culture was re-introduced to the Middle East through the conquest of Iran in the 7th century, and was spread back to the West via centuries of Islamic conquest.
Keep calm and take back Constantinople!
TheWalfadr No
it is comming
Keep calm its never be ^^
one man can dream I guess
Have you ever asked what happened after Muslim take over the city?
well, some Constantine scholars contributed to the renaissance, but interaction with Moorish Spain, Egypt, and the middle east probably did more to transmit greek science and learning