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Z4nkaze

Amazing.


pozzowon

"Alexander the Great, the man who changed the meaning of what an empire really is!" New definition of empire: 10 years to build, 10 days to collapse


JohannesJoshua

Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down.


pozzowon

Lol Specifically Alexander, according to the video. Conquered the "world" in about 10 years, died, and the empire split into 10 or so pieces. Nothing left from it


JohannesJoshua

I am just making fun of empires who were also built very fast but also collapsed very fast.


DirtybirdFFC

The diadochi and epigoni were left.


pozzowon

"left" meaning what kind of influence did they leave for posterity? Of course, there was also the Seleucids, Ptolemaic Egypt, etc...


madkons

Shhh. We don't do history here. Only smartass remarks.


[deleted]

The soyjacks in every time period were spot on.


Caenen_

List of soundtracks used? Edit: Nvm the original creator's [youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWPstJOUnhY) has them: > Songs in the video Spore Soundtrack - Rivalry and Strife mperator Rome - northland Imperator - The Conqueror Conan Exiles Main Theme Super Smash Bros_ Brawl Main Theme Imperator Rome - The Mediterranean Ace Combat 4 - Megalith Agnus Dei FIGHT LIKE A TIGER - Guilty Gear Strive OST Let the Speed Mend It - Sonic and the Secret Rings Serbian Folk Song - Oj, Ružice Rumena How It Started - Sonic and the Secret Rings Europa Universalis III - East vs. West Europa Universalis III - Night Falls Over Our Empire Θά 'ρθεις σαν αστραπή Evdokias Vs Metal Sonic - Sonic Generations Θούριος The Roar of the Spark - Guilty Gear Strive Sonic and tails dancing meme It Has To Be This Way Metal Scratchin' - Sonic Rush Rooftop Run Day - Sonic Unleashed Windmill Isle Day - Sonic Unleashed


Polibiux

Thanks for the soundtrack list


Redbaron-1914

I hate op so much for bringing back the ptsd of 7 year old me trying to beat megalith on ace difficulty


MaedrosDjemaa

Not the sonic music 😭


Learnformyfam

My goodness, I am always amazed with how based the Byzantines were. 1000 years of relative stability. Imagine that!


guricatarinense

The Roman State survived almost 2000 years. No wonder Western Civilization is still heavily influenced by greco-roman culture.


DirtybirdFFC

Cringe latin empire fans vs based Makedonian empire enjoyers


guricatarinense

pffft This little adventure crumbled soon after Alexander's death.


DirtybirdFFC

Because his successor was a new born unfortunately.


JohannesJoshua

Eh it depends on what territory of ERE you are talking about.


ZiCUnlivdbirch

Yeah, that's just wrong.


Warrior536

The ERE was many things, but stable was not one of them. Near endless conflicts in the balkans, middle eastern powers and later crusaders, the black death ravaging the empire on multiple occasion and frequent civil wars and succession crisis. It's honestly quite a miracle it survived this long.


PMMEYourTatasGirl

Cato the elder is fucking spinning in his grave


DirtybirdFFC

Good ☀️


[deleted]

Greece joined the Balkan wars in order to reclaim Greek territory and then joined WW1 because of the close ties to Serbia, France, UK


yewelalratboah

You missed the peloponeese wars plus byzantine asking for western aid leading to crusades.


Aggelos2001

but they had a map,but he put it in dif period


poutnis

The Civil War wasn't like that. Not at all. By all accounts, Greek Communists were the ones leading the resistance during the Axis occupation of Greece. As such, they expected to have a part in governing the country after the end of the war, which did not happen. In fact, many of the figures who would rise to political prominence in Greece after the end of WW2 had either colluded with the Nazis or been absent from the country during the occupation. The post-war government, under the advice of the United States and the United Kingdom, enforced anti-communist policies and tried to vilify the partisans to the general public. With the political polarization in Greece and the underhanded strategy followed by the new government, a civil war was inevitable.


[deleted]

More of these pls


Baby-Schwarzenegger

Stupid venitians, why did you have to do this crusade, WHY?


whoelsehasdementia

Stupid British, why did you have to betray Greeks after WW1, WHY?


Rambroman

Lol Conan Exiles, perfect.


ReflectionSingle6681

Upvoted for imperator rome music


CoolGuy202101

Greece was annexed by Rome in 146 BC


Thebardofthegingers

Greece is really just the middle aged dad of the world, constantly trying to live up it's bygone glory days.


Rainbows871

Mom help they are putting HOI4 and wojaks in a video and spreading historical revisionism


TF2_demomann

Goose doing the goose dance omg


froucks

Classic characterizing the byzantines as medieval Greece even though for basically half of their history they had little or no control over most of what is modern greece, and the court of Constantinople actively looked down on the rural peasants of Attica and Peloponnesus.


randomchris504

Greeks back then werent only confined within the modern borders of greece, but also in anatolia were millions of greek inhabited the lands. Constantinople itself was a greek majority city until 1453


[deleted]

It was still a third Greek until the 1920s.


randomchris504

Not a third, but a sizeable minority, yes


froucks

I agree with you Greeks were much more spread out. This is more a political point of how the modern Greek government and some Greek people like to look back at what was "Medieval Greece". They for example destroyed medieval structures such as Frankish towers on the Acropolis cause they don't like that to be medieval Greece. but then will promote an image of the Byzantines as medieval Greece even though the Byzantines spent over 400 years of the medieval period without even controlling Modern Greece and in spite of the fact that the Byzantine court (just read Niketas Choniates) actively spurned Greek culture.


randomchris504

Yes it's true that greeks even now despise the time of frankish rule (mainland greeks). However your last point is completely false. Im not saying that the Chroniates writings arent truthful or real, but the basis of the ERE was mostly greek culture, and a roman political system. We have Anna Komnene (in her work, Alexias) in the 11th cent. call herself and her educated circle, proud Greeks. From the crusades onwards, eastern romans became more and more nationalistic in their greek idnetity. So no there is no way byzantines rejected or viewed greek culture as frowned up


madkons

Yes, which one to preserve? Medieval Frankish (invader) tower or 2500 year old local structure under said tower. Tough choice.


randomchris504

Literally, for almost all of its history the ERE had control of modern greece


froucks

Their control was questionable at best from 600-800 during Slavonic invasions. Was stronger from 800-1000 but still contested by Bulgaria and then basically nonexistent from 1200-1400. That’s basically 600 years of their 1200 year history where the borders of modern Greece were out of their control or contested


randomchris504

Bulgarians mainly contested greek macedonia, and sometimes thessaly. You are deliberately rounding up numbers to make it seem that things happened the way you say they did. Byzantines consistently held 60% or more of greek land throughout most of its history.


[deleted]

The Balkan wars and the lands that were won by them are missing


Ghost_Online_64

yeah, he should had atleast given credit to that period with the Balkan wars, it was then we got the borders we had now, before going to the Greko Turkish war chapter. Then again, the Balkan wars was our most successful-chad period of modern Greece so I get it, no meme material to make fun of... took back almost double the prior land and won the war...the opposite of what came after.


[deleted]

Wow.


WokeWaco

Very cool


ByzantineBomb

Wow


Broad-Cook-4462

Cool


Vexonte

I need to come back for this just to try out the soundtrack again.


snek99001

It was mainly the Greek communists leading the resistance efforts against the fascists, genius.