Uploaded May 2019 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago

---

In this video, we discuss the history of the Byzantine Empire, from the year that Western Rome fell, 476, onwards.

Check us out here too!
Patreon: Patreon.com/Fireoflearning



Picture sources
By Nserrano - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61568230
By Constantine Plakidas - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31597695
By Ra Boe - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6633825
By Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com, CC BY-SA 2.5, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32922592
By Gun Powder Ma - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4463399
By User:Fabienkhan - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=588632
By Petar Milošević - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60402597
By Roger Culos - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44352375
By Dpalma01 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=480025
By mehrdad68, CC BY 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52789227
By Cplakidas - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5084599
By en:User:Bigdaddy1204 - Photograph taken in June 2006 in Istanbul by en:User:Bigdaddy1204. All credits go to him., CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=880970
By Roberta F. - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2569032
By Nepenthes - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5623273
By Marina Milella - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50356591
By Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29529950
By cheesy42 - flickr.com/photos/cheesy42/464147206/, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7447696
By Berthold Werner - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23400917
By Stanislav Traykov - Edited version of (cloned object out of background) Image:Michelangelo's Pieta 5450 cropncleaned.jpg), CC BY 2.5, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3653602
By Klearchos Kapoutsis from Paleo Faliro, Athens, Greece - The Great Basilica, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7453108
By Brocken Inaglory - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7283971
By Arild Vågen - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24932378
By MapMaster - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1501892
By RG72 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76567453

Partial Map sources:

youtube.com/watch?v=UY9P0QSxlnI&t=372s
youtube.com/watch?v=-6Wu0Q7x5D0&t=813s
youtube.com/watch?v=ymI5Uv5cGU4&t=513s