I just love the role reversal in this series, showing events form the other side. In Justinian, Khosrau seemed like the bad guy, while in Khosrau, Justinian seemed like the bad guy. Not only that, but Justinian looks incompetent and Belsarisa looks like greedy and unqualified general. Shows you the fact that history is never as simple as it seems, due to the fact that people work with incomplete and biased info.
Honestly Khosrau still seems like the villain here. This psychopathic mass murder of villages for the sake of money isn't really a normal heroes journey.
Honestly, ancient rulers have this serious problem with committing horrifying acts of violence and murder that makes it a lot harder to like them. Seriously guys, lay off the mass murder. You would probably a lot more popular.
That... was not a serious comment. It was a joke. I was not legitimately claiming that "not committing mass murder" was a serious piece of advice for ancient rulers. I mean, it was obviously wrong, and I can't honestly like most historical ancient rulers because of it, but it wasn't a serious piece of advice. But I guess making a vague statement like "You have no idea how x worked" makes interaction much less pleasant, so you should probably just do that instead!
*From Khosrau to Justinian* And I'll do you one even better, by giving all your former employees all the booze and hookers they want. Why I just gave one of them a Diamond Unicorn just 2 hours ago! How bout them apples Justin?
It made me laugh doubly for the irony of it. Read the bible, and you see pretty much the exact opposite of this. They got exactly one king in before someone messed it up. Most of the rest weren't much better. For that matter there were quite a few priests that didn't do so hot either. Moral of the story? People with power go a little funny in the head.
One of the reasons being, though, that a lot of the bible was written down quite a bit later. And in that case, god tends to agree with what actually happened. ;D
Who would win? A battle hardened Byzantine army, lead by one of the most capable military leaders of Roman history. Vs An enormous Persian army at the peak of Sassanid power, composed of well-paid and motivated soldiers. Answer: Some bacteria.
Later... Who would win? The well-trained, battle hardended Byzantine army Vs The huge battle hardened Sassanid army with high morale Answer: Some people with a new religion from that place near the Red Sea
I was really enjoying this and then I was like "waaaaait, I remember how this ends up...Oh no..." Goddamn plague. This trolling match was incredible and going so damn well and suddenly it rolls in and goes "That's a fun trolling match you have going there. It would be a shame...If everyone died horribly!" :(
Considering how often we hear "cut down to the last man" I think it's more than 2 people that died from a sword to the gut. Not as much as during the marches usually but still.
Francis-Olivier Toba "cut to the last men" is often the exeption, that's why they bother to write it down in the chronicles. Majority of battles up to the modern age were finished because a few dudes become scared shitless and run, guys around them see that and decide to do the same and oh look SHAMEFULL DISPLAY. It's not two people, certainly not if we are talking about disciplined armies like in the video, but as soon as the real dying part of the battle begins, one side usually runs. The other thing is, if the army knows they will be cut to the last men, they will fight to the last men. Which is not what you want, they may actually win this way. When the soliders know surrendering isn't a big deal, and reasons to fight are vague and not personal, they will drop their weapons at the first decent looking opportunity.
With a title like that, you _know_ the episode is going to be fun. (Probably not for anyone involved, but hey, they've been dead for over a millennium. "Too soon" expired long ago.)
That could also be seen as part insult, part political move. even at that stage, destroying religious buildings could be seen as justification for war fervor (eg. they destroyed the churches! the heathens!). By not doing that, he ensured that, to the Roman troops in his army, he would still protect and value their customs.
There's also the point that Zoroastrians don't believe in the concept of "one true religion". I'm not a Zoroastrian, so don't take my word on this, but the idea I heard is that they believe Ahura Mazda (God) reveals itself in many different forms, and thus all religions are true on some level or another. They may not have destroyed the church because to them, any holy building is a shrine to Ahura Mazda, not just Zoroastrian ones.
In the followup to that though, they said he enslaved the captives. I thought Zoroastrianism forbid slavery.Did Khosrau only care about Zoroastrian principles for PR at home? Also today I learned that on religion's name for God is also a model of car. The more you know!*
"Khosrau's better Antioch" Good freaking gravy that man was committed to mocking Justinian at every chance. Can you imagine, Russia takes over America and builds a new city for people to live in calling it "Better New York?"
pecu alex A lot of the latter OT is this way. The prophets were often opposed to the kings. One OT line which struck me was, "It was Spring, the time when kings go to war."
Okay, I officially want an HBO series based on the history that this and the Justinian series covers. It would be epic as hell. And I don't usually use the word "epic".
Agreed. It could show events from both Justinian's side and Kosrau's. The episodes alternate between perspectives, and in the finale it ends with the plague claiming both sides. A special 'Plague-isode' if you will.
air "Khosrau The immortal Soul" and "Justinian the Conqueror" as connected crossing over series on different nights, episodes release every week with the episodes being spaced out and having the same timeline.
The Plague would be a nice friendly guy who just wants to hug everyone. In the last episode, evil humans slowly beat him to death with their horrible vaccines, and it's over. You stare at the screen with eyes full of tears and ask "WHYYYY"? And, as always, you dream about timetravelling. Because history is cruel.
Oh Justinian, you really were too ambitious, weren't you? You just couldn't help but try to stir up trouble in east while you were planning on expanding back west, huh? Welp, congratulations, you bit off more than you can chew and choked on it. Sigh... As much as I love Justinian, let's face it, he sorely had all of this coming to him, and Khosrau was just brutal.
corvus917 I mean, attempting to secure alliances along an enemy, while certainly encroaching on spheres of influence, is a good idea in convincing said enemy to continue peace.
Can't really blame a Roman emperor for being too ambitious. Other than the Eastern Romans there is no-one to root for anyways as others are barbarians and their empires never last too long.
It's really great getting to see this part of history from another perspective, following after the Justinian episodes. It reminds me of the Punic Wars series, and in a good way!
More like US soldiers pissing on the Quran while fighting Al Queda. Or better still the Russian annexation of the Crimea, with even a referendum to rub it in the West's pro-democracy face.
I would call him lawful evil. He'll steal your people, lands and armies but he'll do it fairly and treat nice them while doing so. Walpole always struck me as more chaotic evil, just doing things to get his own way no matter what and messing up countries with debt for generations.
This is one of my favorite episodes of extra history. The humor, illustration, and genuinely interesting educational material is masterful and fulfilling.
So excited to hear the building of that New Antioch from Khosrau’s point of view! I remember when you guys covered it last time from Justinian’s. GET REKT SON
I think I am having some sort of a déjà vu here. Khosrau is the best though, damn that prank was the best to ever be made. That image with Khosrau on the beach was on point! 11/10
I absolutely loved the cartoony, cutsy images you folks use for these videos. The humorous dialogue onscreen just make them even better. Definitely one of the most entertaining educational channels I've ever come across.
It seems like an interesting thought: as Justinian and Khosrau are nearly similar in their personalities (seeing that they vastly overhauled and improved their empires) I can not begin to imagine what could have been when they would have become allies (though maybe not much would have changed). But damn I love Extra history, this is stuff which is so interesting yet sadly is never even talked upon in the history classes. Thanks you for providing this knowledge to the people.
Extra Credits together with the Justinian series this one is my favorite of all. Please go on with the history of the Iranians and Byzantines!!! I would also love a series about Plato and his life or Socrates!!!!!
Fixing a chariot race so that Justinian's favourite team would lose badly is just glorious. It's like Justinian is the comedian and Khosrau is the heckler.
It's really interesting hearing history told from Khosrau's point of view after watching the Justinian + Theodora series :D Thanks!!! I'm absolutely loving the playlist for Prehistory-1699! I can't wait to watch the next one (1700's +) even though I started on that playlist and then realized you had an earlier history playlist going :D Yay for history! Thanks for creating videos in an easy to follow manner as well! I feel like I'm learning more from your videos than I did in history class in high school. Keep up all the awesome work!
I really like this series of videos. A big part of that is that, by discussing a history that includes the subject of a previous series from this channel, it shows that these events didn't happen in a vacuum and an historical figure and his accomplishments and failures can look completely different based on perspective. Basing on this channel's Justinian series, Justinian looks like the hero of a great long story. And then this series comes along making him look slimy in some places, a failure in others. This is a really good series.
Ironic. Death has a very sly way of foiling a good streak of wins
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Hello Extra Credits! I just wanted to say thank you for making these awesome mini series on history. I remember reading about this I school but I never felt any sort of connection with the events, people or places back then. But your series has really changed that for me. Now I much more appreciate the history as a result! Thanks again and keep up the great work! Ps. If at all possible could you consider doing some north European history as well? That's would be fantastic!
I find it funny watching the Khosrau series because in Justinian’s long series Khosrau is the enemy and seems general like an evil dude, but in Khosrau’s (hopefully long) series Justinian is viewed as an evil dude and what Khosrau does is justified. Extra Credits always manages to show both perspectives equally and that’s what I love about them
I love this channel so much, and even more that you are putting the spotlight on the Khorsrau. I loved reading about him when I was younger. Two heros of diffrent sides restoring great empires to power. ugh! so damn good!!
It's super interesting watching this episode and then contrasting it with the the episode on Justinian's perspective of these events. Keep up the amazing work!
Your soldiers choose me, your towns choose me, your people choose me, GET REKT SON!--Khosrau, ~562 AD If everything in Justine Empire chooses you, you might as well take his plague as well right, Khosrau? I'm sure it would rather choose you over Justine as well.
As an iranian i like both of them both were look for law and justice but not done much great to each other they had to be friends and never let something like arab invasions weakened their empires in future
Strage thing is, if Justin had repaid the Persians' prior favor in earnest, thus adopting Khosrau for real, Justinian and the Shah might have actually become friends. The latter's family drama aside, they sound alike enough they could pass as each other's alternate history counterpart.
I'm really glad you chose this as the next series. I'm really conflicted about seeing our old friend justinian getting torn apart and it made me realize that the story really is changed by who's side is telling it. When we were following justinian I thought he was a tragic dreamer trying to rebuild his nations glory. Now I have a more balanced perspective as we can see what that meant for everyone else, and why they fought back.
I fucking love how you choose to retell history by adding in modern slang and the banter between characters on screen is always entertaining. Your Extra History videos are, I believe, the pinnacle of history endutainment.
I love hearing all the same stories from the Justinian episode again. It's a really great story, glad we got to hear it from both sides, so that it didn't seem like Khosrau was the bad guy this time!
Potential spoilers below. I tried looking up Khosrau on Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khosrow_I#War_with_the_Byzantine_Empire,_572%E2%80%93591 ). I think both kings lived through the plague.
Justinian had been meddling in his affairs, and Khosrau had the proof. It was time for a holy war!
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Extra Credits Justinan looks to adorable in this style to be a grumpy Roman guy
Found walpole at 4:00
next part?
Extra Credits is this going to be just the story of a better Justinian
This and Justinian together make up probably your best work (apart from Suleiman). Thank you so much for covering all that you do
"Khosrau's Better Antioch"
That's gotta be one of the greatest political burns ever.
I think the actual name was closer to "Better-than-Antioch, Khosrau built this", which rubs in the whole thing even further.
An awesome city name from history
@@moriskurth628 is the city still around in modern day?
@@legiohysterius4624 yeah, its called Dezful and located in state of khuzestan, South of iran
@@maminesmaeeli3288 thx
Looking to outdo Justinian, Khosrau even contracted the same plague as his arch-rival.
I have found it! This is the correct comment that has one. Everyone else can go home now.
To be fair, I doubt that either of the two men would have wanted to contract the plague if they could help it.
It's just late afternoon but I doubt that I will read something more clever today. Have a cookie.
Khosrau: "I'll get my own plague! With black-jack, AND HOOKERS!"
My plague is bigger than yours
Your soldiers choose me, your towns choose me, your people choose me. GET REKT SON! --Khosrau, ~562 AD
I´m dead! hahaha!
*Ancient airhorns blare in the distance*
oh my gawd... thats amzaing
@@coletakkish4389 *War trumpets*
Hhh lol
I just love the role reversal in this series, showing events form the other side. In Justinian, Khosrau seemed like the bad guy, while in Khosrau, Justinian seemed like the bad guy. Not only that, but Justinian looks incompetent and Belsarisa looks like greedy and unqualified general. Shows you the fact that history is never as simple as it seems, due to the fact that people work with incomplete and biased info.
Honestly Khosrau still seems like the villain here. This psychopathic mass murder of villages for the sake of money isn't really a normal heroes journey.
Note: This also happened in Italy when an Ostrogothic city refused to surrender to Belisarius.
Honestly, ancient rulers have this serious problem with committing horrifying acts of violence and murder that makes it a lot harder to like them.
Seriously guys, lay off the mass murder. You would probably a lot more popular.
That... was not a serious comment. It was a joke. I was not legitimately claiming that "not committing mass murder" was a serious piece of advice for ancient rulers. I mean, it was obviously wrong, and I can't honestly like most historical ancient rulers because of it, but it wasn't a serious piece of advice.
But I guess making a vague statement like "You have no idea how x worked" makes interaction much less pleasant, so you should probably just do that instead!
Also perspective is a powerful thing. I think they are depicting the Byzantines as they appear from the Persian point of view.
Proof that trolling was alive and well in the middle ages.
FearlessSon memes are truly amazing
The 6th century can hardly be called "the iron age"
Well you know the pommel throwing stuff
If Justinian just had his whole army throw their pommels at the enemy they'd have retreated at top speeds
"Khosrau's Better Antioch" Is the best part of this episode I tell you
The different sides telling stories are so fun to react to.
Im confused on why they didnt tell on what justin was doing backstabbing khosrau
"I'm going to make a better Antioch, with Blackjack, and Hookers!"
- Khosrau, the Bender Bending Rodriguez of his time.
*From Khosrau to Justinian* And I'll do you one even better, by giving all your former employees all the booze and hookers they want. Why I just gave one of them a Diamond Unicorn just 2 hours ago! How bout them apples Justin?
"Cause god generally sides with kings who asks priests nicely." Made me laugh.
Alexander wasn't nice about it...
It made me laugh doubly for the irony of it. Read the bible, and you see pretty much the exact opposite of this. They got exactly one king in before someone messed it up. Most of the rest weren't much better. For that matter there were quite a few priests that didn't do so hot either. Moral of the story? People with power go a little funny in the head.
Wrong God. This is talking about the Zoroastrian deity.
True. Still kind of funny regardless.
One of the reasons being, though, that a lot of the bible was written down quite a bit later. And in that case, god tends to agree with what actually happened. ;D
Perspective is a funny thing isn't it?
Ikr? First time hearing essentially the same story from both sides on this channel (from different series, unlike the D-Day stuff)
Still for Justinian in the kosrau perspective
ya but i still want justinian to win
well no he dies and after his empire falls apart :(
Jakob Knudsen yes
Who would win?
A battle hardened Byzantine army, lead by one of the most capable military leaders of Roman history.
Vs
An enormous Persian army at the peak of Sassanid power, composed of well-paid and motivated soldiers.
Answer:
Some bacteria.
Some plague boi
Ooof
A kind of virus
Genius
Later...
Who would win?
The well-trained, battle hardended Byzantine army
Vs
The huge battle hardened Sassanid army with high morale
Answer: Some people with a new religion from that place near the Red Sea
I was really enjoying this and then I was like "waaaaait, I remember how this ends up...Oh no..."
Goddamn plague. This trolling match was incredible and going so damn well and suddenly it rolls in and goes "That's a fun trolling match you have going there. It would be a shame...If everyone died horribly!" :(
I mean it's probably a better way to end it than 2 armies facing off in an open battle... at least for some of soldiers.
Plague, the ultimate Deus Ex Machina
Considering how often we hear "cut down to the last man" I think it's more than 2 people that died from a sword to the gut. Not as much as during the marches usually but still.
Francis-Olivier Toba actually the Second World War was the first war where combat deaths outnumbered deaths from disease
Francis-Olivier Toba "cut to the last men" is often the exeption, that's why they bother to write it down in the chronicles. Majority of battles up to the modern age were finished because a few dudes become scared shitless and run, guys around them see that and decide to do the same and oh look SHAMEFULL DISPLAY. It's not two people, certainly not if we are talking about disciplined armies like in the video, but as soon as the real dying part of the battle begins, one side usually runs. The other thing is, if the army knows they will be cut to the last men, they will fight to the last men. Which is not what you want, they may actually win this way. When the soliders know surrendering isn't a big deal, and reasons to fight are vague and not personal, they will drop their weapons at the first decent looking opportunity.
With a title like that, you _know_ the episode is going to be fun.
(Probably not for anyone involved, but hey, they've been dead for over a millennium. "Too soon" expired long ago.)
Hey a history video with trolling in the title CANT be bad
Unless they were dragons.
Timothy McLean the antiochians got out of it pretty damn well
Hey they're dead F*** them 😁
{Timothy McLean} too soon
History becomes a little more interesting when the goal of treaties and stuff is "peas."
Another of Scott's brilliant word puns.
Lil did the art for this series! Scott works exclusively on Extra Credits. We're all pretty pun-y folks, though. ;)
If history videos must have puns, then so-vi-et
Take your time, son, we're not russian these puns.
Sorry just thought I’d MARX puns off the list
Love how this ties into the Justinian and Theodora series :)
Yeah, it's nice seeing both sides of the coin.
Ikr! The worldbuilding in this series is brilliant!
Extra Credits Cinematic Universe or ECCU.
and Walpole is there nick fury
"GET REKT SON!!!!!" I cannot stop laughing!!!!!!
I agree; that line was too good.
Funnily enough, however, Khosrau was actually younger than Justinian by almost 20 years.
Agreed. Justinian got ROASTED.
@@carmacksanderson3937 omg really?!
@@TKTTKT-lr9tq Yes he was
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Props to him for not harming religious buildings despite having the religious justification to
That could also be seen as part insult, part political move. even at that stage, destroying religious buildings could be seen as justification for war fervor (eg. they destroyed the churches! the heathens!). By not doing that, he ensured that, to the Roman troops in his army, he would still protect and value their customs.
There's also the point that Zoroastrians don't believe in the concept of "one true religion". I'm not a Zoroastrian, so don't take my word on this, but the idea I heard is that they believe Ahura Mazda (God) reveals itself in many different forms, and thus all religions are true on some level or another. They may not have destroyed the church because to them, any holy building is a shrine to Ahura Mazda, not just Zoroastrian ones.
In the followup to that though, they said he enslaved the captives. I thought Zoroastrianism forbid slavery.Did Khosrau only care about Zoroastrian principles for PR at home?
Also today I learned that on religion's name for God is also a model of car. The more you know!*
I did wonder about that as well.
Your exact comment exemplifies exactly the message Kosrau wants to send by doing this.
"Khosrau's better Antioch"
Good freaking gravy that man was committed to mocking Justinian at every chance. Can you imagine, Russia takes over America and builds a new city for people to live in calling it "Better New York?"
Newer York
"Aha I have a bigger army than you!"
*Random soldier coughs*
"Nevermind!"
*Random soldier coughs*
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I have a bigger button than you, I have the best buttons, all the best buttons. All those other buttons are just totally fake. They're fake buttons.
GET REKT, SON !!
-Khosrau Anushirawan
"Gods tend to agree with kings, at least when they ask their priests nicely." Pretty accurate.
pecu alex A lot of the latter OT is this way. The prophets were often opposed to the kings.
One OT line which struck me was, "It was Spring, the time when kings go to war."
@@Kobrag90 in catholicism they only agreed with whoever had more money
Okay, I officially want an HBO series based on the history that this and the Justinian series covers. It would be epic as hell. And I don't usually use the word "epic".
Agreed. It could show events from both Justinian's side and Kosrau's. The episodes alternate between perspectives, and in the finale it ends with the plague claiming both sides. A special 'Plague-isode' if you will.
I dunno; I fear they try to make Justinian look better compare to Khosrau.
Or to 641
air "Khosrau The immortal Soul" and "Justinian the Conqueror" as connected crossing over series on different nights, episodes release every week with the episodes being spaced out and having the same timeline.
Unlawful_Falafel
That would be epic.
Can we take it further and actually make a Historical Cinematic Universe?
*The Visigoths were in Spain, not Italy. Italy was held by the Ostrogoths.
James Varble ans now goths are evrywere
So both were Goths?
Plague: The actual MVP of history
...For certain definitions of "value," sure.
Plague Inc. Evolved Evolved
Yeah it basically ended The Byzantines and The Crusades with the Black Death so
NoobNerd’s CringeyChannel Don't you dare to spoil the ending
And plagues always manage to fade away, just like that mobile game you get addicted to for a month
First Justinian, now Khosrau. Can we get a series from the Plagues perspective?
Plague: Just rekt these 2 noobs, lol stupid humans can do nothing hehehe even their leaders caught it
The Plague would be a nice friendly guy who just wants to hug everyone.
In the last episode, evil humans slowly beat him to death with their horrible vaccines, and it's over. You stare at the screen with eyes full of tears and ask "WHYYYY"? And, as always, you dream about timetravelling. Because history is cruel.
Oh Justinian, you really were too ambitious, weren't you? You just couldn't help but try to stir up trouble in east while you were planning on expanding back west, huh? Welp, congratulations, you bit off more than you can chew and choked on it. Sigh... As much as I love Justinian, let's face it, he sorely had all of this coming to him, and Khosrau was just brutal.
corvus917 I mean, attempting to secure alliances along an enemy, while certainly encroaching on spheres of influence, is a good idea in convincing said enemy to continue peace.
Yeah, his "diplomacy" plans were waaaaaaaaay too aggressive.
Can't really blame a Roman emperor for being too ambitious. Other than the Eastern Romans there is no-one to root for anyways as others are barbarians and their empires never last too long.
It's really great getting to see this part of history from another perspective, following after the Justinian episodes. It reminds me of the Punic Wars series, and in a good way!
“Wish you were here” ROFL!!!!!!!!!!
Justinian fans! We’ve gone full circle!
Imagine a modern army doing something like Khosrau did. It's a hilarious image.
More like US soldiers pissing on the Quran while fighting Al Queda. Or better still the Russian annexation of the Crimea, with even a referendum to rub it in the West's pro-democracy face.
unless you are their victim
Almost as hilarious as Putin playing the piano
They're probably setting up parties with meme music everytime they conquered cities
Damn, son. "Khosrau's Better Antioch." That's just mean.
"Khosrau's Better Antioch" oh my god, khosrau has become one of my favourite people featured in extra history.
This dude almost as much of a troll as Walpole
LetsPlayGamers Or Bismarck
You summoned me? ;)
as if you need to be summoned you're already there in the thick of it
I would call him lawful evil. He'll steal your people, lands and armies but he'll do it fairly and treat nice them while doing so.
Walpole always struck me as more chaotic evil, just doing things to get his own way no matter what and messing up countries with debt for generations.
HEY! YOU DISTRACTED THAT GENERAL!
This is one of my favorite episodes of extra history. The humor, illustration, and genuinely interesting educational material is masterful and fulfilling.
The Belisarius dig was pretty neat. Perspective man
This was a FANTASTIC episode. I love your channel and how fun it makes history while still being factual. Keep em coming!
So excited to hear the building of that New Antioch from Khosrau’s point of view! I remember when you guys covered it last time from Justinian’s.
GET REKT SON
I think I am having some sort of a déjà vu here.
Khosrau is the best though, damn that prank was the best to ever be made. That image with Khosrau on the beach was on point! 11/10
I absolutely loved the cartoony, cutsy images you folks use for these videos. The humorous dialogue onscreen just make them even better. Definitely one of the most entertaining educational channels I've ever come across.
Your Khosrau series has been the best so far. I kinda like the guy.
"GET REKT SON!" - Khosrau I Anushirvan, 540 A.D.
>Chooses to break the truce citing Holy War
>Plague comes
i don't think God was pleased.
And both Justinian and Khosrau got the plague
K A R M A
Anyone remember which Justinian episode is this?
HotHeadNine thanks
I love when series intermingle with each other, it's great!
Sajuuk E episode 9
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"Your Soldiers choose me, your Towns choose me, and, your People choose me... Get Wrecked, Son!!!"
It seems like an interesting thought: as Justinian and Khosrau are nearly similar in their personalities (seeing that they vastly overhauled and improved their empires) I can not begin to imagine what could have been when they would have become allies (though maybe not much would have changed). But damn I love Extra history, this is stuff which is so interesting yet sadly is never even talked upon in the history classes. Thanks you for providing this knowledge to the people.
Now I want a Total War game or mod where we can rig races to spite rivals and build cities for captives and name them
Khosrau be like: 'Im da best n00bs!'
Belisarius: 'Hold my beer...'
Plague: GIT GOOD SKRUBS!
I love how the characters (I mean, the historical figures!) look the same across the whole series, regardless of artist. That's a beautiful touch!
So the plague hit both armies at once.
Hit both leaders at the same time.
Who could have done such a thing?
It was Walpole
It was all Bismarck's plan.
Keeper of Eurobeat oto van bishmark always has a plan
mini2239 you do realize that Bismarck planned it and executed by Walpole
If those two allied, they would have taken over the world by conspiracy, intrigue and dark shadowy vampire cults
Bismarck and Walpole are working together
Khosrau: "Hey man, is it true you are trying to turn my allies against me?"
Justinian: "Nah man, fake news!"
Extra Credits together with the Justinian series this one is my favorite of all. Please go on with the history of the Iranians and Byzantines!!! I would also love a series about Plato and his life or Socrates!!!!!
So Khosrau built a new Antioch, with Black Jack and Hookers eh?
god dam i am in tear this king is hilarious
i mean if you forget the acts of butchery
"I'm gonna build a NEW Antioch! With blackjack and hookers!"
"Actually, forget the hookers! And the blackjack! But I'm keeping the name "Better Antioch"!"
"You know what, forget the Antioch! Ah, screw the whole thing.."
"Your soldiers choose me. Your towns choose me, and your people choose me. Get rekt son!" #ExtraHistory2018
It's kind of weird seeing our boy Justinian as the antagonist
He's not really the antagonist though is he? ;))
Blackforest98 well it depends. From Khosrau point of view he is a villain.
That's what happens with the perspective flip.
Augustine Daudud One man's favourite Roman emperor is another man's terrorist. Oh wait, ai mean shrewd conqueror.
Dammit, Walpole! Quit dangling shiny things in front of Bellasarius like he's a cat!
But he's so cute chasing after all that glory!
Fixing a chariot race so that Justinian's favourite team would lose badly is just glorious. It's like Justinian is the comedian and Khosrau is the heckler.
TRULY A VICTORY FOR THE FORCES OF JUSTICE!
Ville Vaarala OH COME ON overly sarcastic productions... REALLY. AWESOME
YES!
Overly sarcastic productions is the best
khosrau seems like a pretty cool dude
Don't often get to see comedy in historic times. It was fun and illuminating. Great video!
It's really interesting hearing history told from Khosrau's point of view after watching the Justinian + Theodora series :D Thanks!!! I'm absolutely loving the playlist for Prehistory-1699! I can't wait to watch the next one (1700's +) even though I started on that playlist and then realized you had an earlier history playlist going :D Yay for history! Thanks for creating videos in an easy to follow manner as well! I feel like I'm learning more from your videos than I did in history class in high school. Keep up all the awesome work!
*reads title*
I can already tell I'll this will be my new favorite episode!
of course you were there
You both were wont you
knew it was Walpole all along
*dangles some glory in your face*
@@robertwalpole360 stop walpole
Khosrau Anushirawan: The Original Troll
This episode was absolutely top notch with those little animation touches (AB - C [see] , peas for peace and such), great job!
Thank god its back
justinian was one of my favourite things you have made so i love hearing someone elses side of his story
Truce on account of plague
Khosrau and Justinian seem, to me, to be the living embodiment of the phrase, "Anything you can do, I can do better."
That was just amazing, to see this story from Justinian's side, and then from khosrau's side!
But seriously, Walpole, WILL YOU STOP RUINING WARS?????
I really like this series of videos. A big part of that is that, by discussing a history that includes the subject of a previous series from this channel, it shows that these events didn't happen in a vacuum and an historical figure and his accomplishments and failures can look completely different based on perspective. Basing on this channel's Justinian series, Justinian looks like the hero of a great long story. And then this series comes along making him look slimy in some places, a failure in others. This is a really good series.
Ironic. Death has a very sly way of foiling a good streak of wins
Hello Extra Credits!
I just wanted to say thank you for making these awesome mini series on history. I remember reading about this I school but I never felt any sort of connection with the events, people or places back then. But your series has really changed that for me. Now I much more appreciate the history as a result! Thanks again and keep up the great work!
Ps. If at all possible could you consider doing some north European history as well? That's would be fantastic!
"Get Rekt, son!" Couldn't stop laughing at that point.
I really love how you guys can tell 2 sides of a story and make me love people I hated and vise versa
It's really great to see Justinian now the "bad guy" of the story. THAT is true education guys well done
Its wonderful that you have both the Roman and Iranian sides in videos.
I find it funny watching the Khosrau series because in Justinian’s long series Khosrau is the enemy and seems general like an evil dude, but in Khosrau’s (hopefully long) series Justinian is viewed as an evil dude and what Khosrau does is justified. Extra Credits always manages to show both perspectives equally and that’s what I love about them
finally, episode we all have waited for
Khosrau, the God of roasting
Love this series from the other perspective - top class stuff.
Builds a replica of Antioch and names it Khosrau's better Antioch. That is some god tier pettiness.
I love this channel so much, and even more that you are putting the spotlight on the Khorsrau. I loved reading about him when I was younger. Two heros of diffrent sides restoring great empires to power. ugh! so damn good!!
Operation Stick it to Justinian commences! :D I literally just (re)watched the Justinian counterpart yesterday!
It's super interesting watching this episode and then contrasting it with the the episode on Justinian's perspective of these events. Keep up the amazing work!
Your soldiers choose me, your towns choose me, your people choose me, GET REKT SON!--Khosrau, ~562 AD
If everything in Justine Empire chooses you, you might as well take his plague as well right, Khosrau? I'm sure it would rather choose you over Justine as well.
"even your plague chooses me, get dunked on BOIIIIIIIIII!"
what, if Justinian's people choose Khosrau, wouldn't that mean even theodora chose him too? Just a theory
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She didn’t switch sides, she died.
This is the best episode of all time!!! I love being able to see both of there perspectives!!!
"Get rekt son.'
I wasn't expecting that. I nearly choked on my blueberry.
Dude I've been loving Khosrau's story! He's da man!
So wait, both Khosrau and Justinian, the greatest emperor's of their time and empires, contracted the plague at the same time. I call twins!!!!
Ironically despite being the arguably greatest emperor's of their empires their ambitions were the downfall of their empires at the same time
JasonDoe1000 Very true.
As an iranian i like both of them both were look for law and justice but not done much great to each other they had to be friends and never let something like arab invasions weakened their empires in future
Its really weird to see this from the other side since seeing you do the videos on Justinian. Nothing like a little perspective. I love it!
Perspective is everything
I seriously LOVED this episode! :D
Btw Khosrau is a BADASS!
Strage thing is, if Justin had repaid the Persians' prior favor in earnest, thus adopting Khosrau for real, Justinian and the Shah might have actually become friends. The latter's family drama aside, they sound alike enough they could pass as each other's alternate history counterpart.
I'm really glad you chose this as the next series. I'm really conflicted about seeing our old friend justinian getting torn apart and it made me realize that the story really is changed by who's side is telling it. When we were following justinian I thought he was a tragic dreamer trying to rebuild his nations glory. Now I have a more balanced perspective as we can see what that meant for everyone else, and why they fought back.
2:39 well infinity sideways...
I fucking love how you choose to retell history by adding in modern slang and the banter between characters on screen is always entertaining. Your Extra History videos are, I believe, the pinnacle of history endutainment.
hes mr steal yo population lol
I love hearing all the same stories from the Justinian episode again. It's a really great story, glad we got to hear it from both sides, so that it didn't seem like Khosrau was the bad guy this time!
Wait did both kings get infected by the disease......damn
Mughees Suhaib ya Justinian got the plague and lived somehow, but what about khosrou, did he die
Potential spoilers below.
I tried looking up Khosrau on Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khosrow_I#War_with_the_Byzantine_Empire,_572%E2%80%93591 ). I think both kings lived through the plague.
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You guys are making my sick weekend a hell of a lot better.