The Unspeakable Punishments Of The Byzantine Empire
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- In the year 395, the Roman Empire split into two parts: the Western Roman Empire, which included Rome, and the Eastern Roman Empire, sometimes called “The Byzantine Empire” after its capitol at Byzantium, and which became Constantinople during the reign of Emperor Constantine. The split of the most powerful empire in Western history happened for a number of reasons. One, it would be easier to administer a smaller area, considering the means of communication at the time. Two, the borders of the empire were threatened by many hostile people and it was believed that dividing command and control would make defending the empire easier. Three, it was believed that having two equal emperors would lessen the number of power struggles that had been taking place within the Roman Empire for decades.
One thing didn't change with the division of the empire, however - the use of torture and bizarre punishments to keep the people and rivals in line.
Another Byzantine favorite was "rhinotomy" - the removal of the nose. If you've seen the movie "The Northman" (2022), you know that you can live without a nose. But, you couldn't be a Byzantine emperor, for laws forbade the most powerful and exalted figure in the land from being a person who had been disfigured. Political enemies at the highest levels would sometimes cut off the nose of rivals if they had the opportunity to prevent them from taking the throne. Emperors overthrown and not killed outright often had their noses cut off. Even with a leather or cloth mask to prevent foreign bodies from entering the space where the nose used to be, everyone knew what lay underneath.
Of course, laws are only as strong as the paper or parchment they're written on and there were exceptions. The emperor Justinian II was involved in a power struggle with two rivals, one of which who had replaced Justinian on the throne after having cut Justinian's nose off. Undaunted, Justinian covered his nose with a shield made from pure gold, and being powerful, retook the throne. Shortly thereafter, his two rivals, former emperors Leontios and Tiberius III, had their noses cut off before being killed. Justice belonged to Justinian in 705AD. By the way, Justinian's nickname was “Rhinometos,” or “slit-nosed.”
It seems that among the ruling classes, golden noses were a trend in the Eastern Roman Empire. The Byzantine general Tatikios, who led the armies of the empire on the First Crusade also had a golden nose.
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Pretty violent. I wonder what kind of videos games they were playing that influenced them to act that way.
It all started with pong. Went downhill pretty quickly after that.
GTA 500 AC
They played real life violent games not those modern virtual games.
Doom Medieval for sure
@@activatekruger446 :i
There has never been a time, throughout all of history, where humans have not been vile and vicious creatures.
Some humans*
And we are all humans. Scary huh.
Maybe when we were hunter gatherers
how about budhist?
@@vilo8492 most*
"After a long bloody conflict which saw millions die and most of the empire's hinterlands seized by rival powers, Simon emerged victorious, and had the defeated Constantine blinded, skinned alive, dismembered, cooked, and served to a Bulgarian swineherd, in what was regarded as an unusually lenient punishment by Byzantine standards."
Simon was the longest reigning Emperor of his dynasty with his reign lasting a total of 45 minutes.
Legend
That would definitely be seen as unusually barbaric by the Byzantines if it had happened
@@histguy101 🤓🤓🤓
@@histguy101 What blinding 15,000 men ...is hunky dory?! MIND YOU ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN MEN DEFENDING THEIR HOMES! The Byzantines are only second to the Mongols to the amount of evil, treacherous, deviousness.
You forgot an important part of Irene's story, she specifically had her son blinded in the same room where she'd given birth to him over a decade and a half prior
@Saying N*igro Makes CZcams Cry Indeed. I read a book about it. Many factions wanted him to lead not only for his politics but also because he was a man. Irene however controlled many of the court intrigues particularly the eunuchs. So she had her son blinded to settle the issue. A blind man cannot lead after all. Not the most loving of families.
Gotta love mom eh?
People did not tolerate heresy back then. Not even mothers towards heretic sons. Pretty legit in my books.
So what?
@@dinos9607Icon worshipping is clearly a feminine trait and heresy.
Ancient punishments are deeply traumatizing to the core. Seems like people back then were far more malicious than we could've ever imagined them to be.
People are still this bad unfortunately. Look up how Mexicans Cartels torture, execute people and dispose of the bodies. Or how the Taliban punishes and executes people. Or how the CIA tortures people. Humans still act like sadistic psychopaths.
How do you think our rulers came to be our rulers anyway ?
Law and order
In certain parts of Africa and the Middle East some of these brutal punishments carry on to this day. Some have added a modern twist with neck wrapped detonation cord and tank treads.
Nah,your too soft
Castration is also the reason that the African slave trade into Arabia was continual but not generational.
Constantine VI: "WHY THE HELL DID YOU BLIND ME?!"
Irene: "Because where you are going, you won't find anything worth seeing..."
Based af
Justinian II is an underrated Byzantine story. Like he was not a good emperor, but the man certainly had style and I think more people should base their fantasy villains off him.
I'm not sure which 'Justinian' it was but i like the one who dealt with some ridiculous rioters (some 20 - 30,000 of 'em..) by inviting them to 'negotiate' at the hippodrome then locking 'em in - then gettin' out the swords! A real boss !
@@aldosigmann419 Thats the original one
I love how when his ship was in a storm after he escaped exile, someone with him asked him to promise God he would spare his enemies if God calmed the storm. Justinian II replied "If I spare a single one of them, may God drown me now"
Man was DONE with traitors
@@aldosigmann419 yeah, that's the first one and while he was an excellent emperor it's insane to consider that among his good achievements.
@@Michael-bn1oi Don’t feel bad if you don’t get it skippy - it usually eludes the bottom 10th percentile.
The Roman Empire did not split into two empires. They just established an Augustus to govern the western provinces and an Augustus to govern the eastern provinces. It was still one empire and the emperor's could operate in each other's sphere with full imperium. It didn't become two different countries like most people seem to think.
You are right.
The western empire eventually fell ofcourse. Byzantium was alone for quite a long time
I mean, you’re right but it’s kind of like a couple that lives apart for years. They may have never made the divorce final but they are single in every capacity unofficially.
@@evanrogers1825 no, that's untrue. They didn't act as two distinct entities. Things like currency, laws and citizenship remained standard across the empire. Legions, artisans, tradesmen and engineers moved around between east and west. It still operated as one entity. With the exception of tax revenues which were held in two treasuries. Obviously the east had 2/3 of the population and tax revenues so it became the richer half. Latin was still the official language of military and civil administration in the east until Heraclius in the 7th century when Greek replaced Latin for governance. Greek was mostly the common language used for business and later the defacto liturgical language.
@@TagmatonDomestikon same nation but two different states
Byzantine politicians be like:
HAH
I GOT YOUR NOSE
"I shall grant you this mercy and not destroy your soul, take his eyes and hands. You can thank me later citizen, others may not have been so forgiving of your crimes"
Reminds me of how Joe Rogan says chimpanzees go for the hands and eyes as well
...and later add: "don't do it again!"
Even as emperor he didn't have a right to condem someone's soul even he knew he wasn't God
@@dimitriofthedon3917 the emperor is supposedly the regent of god on earth
@@publiopaolacci495 doesn't mean he's God
The relationship between the Byzantine and Bulgarian Empires is quite ironic, considering how much they fought each other but also just how integral the Bulgarians were to defeating the Arab siege of Constantinople in 717 during a peace
That was mostly because the Bulgarians knew full well that if Constantinople fell they would be next though...
Bulgars knew what was gonna follow
@@arcotroll8530 And the were exact since when Greeks fell to the Venetians and their Frankish coons in 1204, the Bulgarians not only failed to exploit the power vacuum but they them too, along the Greeks (and overall a century earlier than the Greeks of mainland Greece!) fell under the advancing Ottomans. In this SE edge of Europe, things are dictated by Greeks. If Greeks go well, the rest of the peninsula goes well. If Greeks go bad, everyone falls with them. It also explains the colossal complexes of inferiority that Balkan nations have towards Greeks. Colossal.
the bulgarians new that the arabs would be worse...way worse
It always makes me laugh when people say the world is so violent today, clearly they didn't study history.
😆 True. “Oh the worlds so terrible today? Be lucky you’ve still got your nose and balls”
Today is the most peaceful world etc, Lol Remember 1920s when dogs had more values than women??
if i had a time machine i would have dropped them at a zone where Mongols were about to slaughter 1 million......😂
More people were murdered in the 20th century than all of periods of time combined
@@chrismckimmey2582 gotta think in proportions
People back then be like "I know life is already really difficult for everyone so let's try to make it even worse."
The videogames of that time are the culprits
Truuu
Take away their guns too.
Banger
Well looks like human rights took a back seat in the ancient /medieval times, while Satan trembled in a corner ..
For sure we are doing much better now...
62 million children have been killed since roe v wade. That is much worse that anything that has ever happened
@@TV-oj8uh no we aren’t it’s jus not done publicly anymore still Happens tho.
@@TV-oj8uh not better. Just different
i think we're still the same. our human nature has always been what it is. nothings changed
I'm going to use these punishments on my enemies now, thanks for the tips!
No need to. Just hit them on their head with a hammer like the one that struck the Tubular Bells
@@janetjohns3957
that's one way to kill them, but we're looking to torture them
or at least i am
Not “A castrati”. Castrati is the plural. The word you wanted was Castrato.
I thought Castrato were pre-adolescent boys who from the 16th century onward were castrated so as to their voices would not break and they could follow a career into adulthood as choral singers. Eventually the practice was made illegal and the last one named Alessandro Moreschi died in 1922 aged 64. Recordings of his voice are available on You Tube.
Nice grammar and punctuation 👍🏻
Molto bene.
Oy veh!
@@LeeRaldar not all thoughts are accurate
Another thing about blinding the Bulgarians in contrast to just killing them is that they will return home alive and economically unproductive. They were a huge economic drain on their families and on Bulgarian society as a whole as well as massively demoralizing to the entire population, wrecking its ability to wage war for decades.
Four years is hardly decades. But yeah I see your point - he couldn't have known the future and destroying the country's ability to wage war was the final step before finally conquering Bulgaria. Good strategy is good strategy...
The empire actually still fought under Ivan vladislav after his death what ever was left of the empire surrendered willingly
@@yoghurtmaster1688 Thank you for the new info
There was an episode in Vikings where Ivar used a similar strategy. “ lf l cripple the soldiers but l don’t kill them that will weaken the troops “
@@supernova7848 Our level of care and down right opulence we afford to the handicapped, lazy, and old is a consequence of our lavish wealth - much of it a result of fossil fuels (the planet's 1 billion year energy and materials savings account). When that runs dry, or is forced out of existence by green morons, we will return to the minimal subsistence of the past and will return to the ways that such widespread poverty entails.
In the Eastern churches (Orthodox, Armenian, Coptic, Syrian, etc.), priests can marry, but monks and religious hierarchs can't. Married priests have a common connection with their community (must be married before ordination); monks are there to pray and devote themselves to God; hierarchs are there to administer a church and not to create religious dynasties.
Up until very recent history, life was filled with death, suffering, sickness, & misery. This is why religion, & the promise of paradise after death was so powerful. We should all be grateful to be alive during this modern period of comfort.
I'm very grateful to live today with modern medicine, indoor plumbing and a pretty high standard of living. But there are still atrocities committed by humans and sadly, religion has always been abused to justify cruelty and murder.
The massacre of the Blues and Greens at the chariot racing coliseum was right up there with some bad assery.
Belisarius wasn’t having any of their bullshit.
Ancient hooligans
they deserved it.
Belisarius was just being a good soldier that's all
This was intriguing as well as disturbing. LIKED!!!
Thanks for the Informative documentary on The Roman and Byzantine empires. I enjoy your spin on the very confusing history of these ruling nations. Cool things to know...
i like how royal families of the past just had no sympathy for their caretakers when they die, they just see it as a oppertunity to reign lol
Most this video was about eunichs, which like you said was not necessarily a punishment. Sometimes done even willingly
Yeah China use to have an enormous number of eunuchs specifically to work in government as they didn't have families so they wouldn't be corrupt. In theory
In theory indeed. In practice oh boy were they wrong 😑
I eunuched myself with a lobster claw rubber band. The band was tight. I felt no pain. In 4 days my testicles were dead from lack of blood flow, and the sack that contains them rotted and dried up like a condom in the gutter. My testicles simply fell from the sack like snow dropping off a bamboo leaf in the morning sun.
I'm just trying to be funny. I love my nuts.
Yeah like people disfiguring their genitals today.
Often "willingly" by will of the parents, so...meh?
Thank you very much!
great 👍👍
Thanks
Man forgot about Harald Hardrada and his Varangians castrating and blinding a emperor
What emperor, please? I can't find information about that.
@@alejandrop.s.3942 Michael V
I've been reading the three volumes of John Julius Norwich 'Byzantium' trilogy.
I highly recommend them if you are interested in the Eastern Roman Empire
Good vid
That's a beautiful avatar pic ngl, thanks for this gem
In the game, *Crusader Kings 3* the Byzantine Empire has a specific "succession law" where the Emperor's Heir can't Inherit any of the Emperor's lesser titles upon death if they're blind & a criminal punishment being eye gouging you can imprison your brothers who are a threat to your full Inheritance to the Empire & poke out their eyes removing them from the line of succession.
Good times.
Moderns: how could these ancient people be so brutal!
Also moderns: *sends their prisoners to a systemic rape camp*
Eye really liked it
"Oh you don't want to see icons anymore huh?"
-Irene of Athens, 797 AD
The idea that an image is holy is the exact opposite of the second commandment
Do ancient Assyrian punishments next please
Ohh shi* 😂
Or the punishments under Islamic law.
@@caroldowning8243 you would be surprised that it is like picnic compared to any non islamic
@@generalkhalid1192 are you referring to Sharia? From what read it pretty brutal but what do I know. I still would like to know more about it.
Oh boy. The Assyrians were _hardcore_
Lovely.
Literally, the Byzantine empire was always known as rhe Roman empire. Only in modern and postmodern history is named the Byzantine empire to distinguish between the republi, the empire and the two sides, east and west roman empire.
Also the Papacy did everything it could to ensure the “Roman spirit” remained in Rome, not with the Greeks
Well this looks like a topic to be talked about around the Thanksgiving Table.....
The 150 Bulgars that were separated from the rest still got one eye poked out. Basil let them keep one of their eyes so they could lead the completely blinded back to their homeland.
A brief note, 2:38 and 8:14, this is Simeon I The Great. He was a Bulgarian ruler and not a Byzantine emperor. Nonetheless, great video.
2:40 this is not a Byzantine Emperor. This painting depicts Bulgarian Tzar Simeon I. He claimed the title of Byzantine Emperor(Basileus) on the basis that the Patriatch of Constantinople crowned him with his own Patriarch diadem, after his victory against the Byzantines in a war.
There is never a need to torture!
Kill, or leave be.
When it comes to hurting others the dedication and creativity of the human race knows no bounds
I have no idea why but I can listen to old torture methods for days
Love the channel, but one of the figures that you used to talk about Byzantine empire and emperors is that of the Bulgarian Tsar Simeon the Great. He was indeed educated in Constantinople, but that is sort of where the connection ends. He spent majority of his rule in battle with the empire
Cutting off the nose was a Persian import and really was only used when the Persians were the Eastern Romans' biggest rival. It wasn't used much past the examples used. Also, my guess, it made noseless rivals less attractive to the Persians to bankroll
"It is easy to SEE why" genious.
i think the reason people were so cruel is because people usually didn't live very long anyway, early death was the norm whether from disease war or violence so these punishments were not seen as bad.
I think it's because people got sliced up in daily life and everyone was just so used to seeing mangled bodies that they had to make torture a little more spicy
Not really, in the roman empire once you survived your childhood you would likely reach 60 years. But in the time after the 600s where most of the shown punishments took place, life expectancy dropped off.
These punishments are definitely worse than being stabbed with a sword or shot with an arrow. Whether they're worse than dying of the plague or dysentery is more debatable.
Castration was done often with "Oprea Singers." Boys were castrated in Italy before they reached puberty to stop their voices from changing. I believe that it was called "Castrato."
And the practice continued long enough that there's actually a recording of a castrato singing.
@@marka4891 Thank you, I had no idea. But I will look it up.
@@army8212 The last of them, so I understand, was named Alessandro Moreschi. He has a Wiki page with audio files. You might start there if you want to know more.
Evnochides may also mean that an ancestor was a eunuch and necessarily a castrator of men.
Additionally, the ending in -είδης (Edis) may also refer to a son for example, Kronedes or Kronidis in the God Zeus son of God Kronos .
Spiros, wait a minute - a eunuch would face an impossible challenge to be anybody's ancestor, no?
@@jeannerogers7085 They could off had a child before becoming an Eunuch
@@Redraptor0001 have , not off.
What?!? A castrated who castrated other men? 🤔
Can't subscribe 😕.
Trying still
Love this kind of stuff
The strange thing about Byzantine cruelty is that it was the members of the East Roman elite, including the Emperor himself, who were in constant danger of being overthrown, blinded, castrated and sent off to spend the rest of their days in some remote hellhole of a monastery.
Damn. Never thought I'd giggle by the man who named Lekapenos
Interesting.
My Grandpa served in the Byzantine Army, he was a President in it. He was supposed to be tortured but he escaped and had me!
Πες το στα Ελληνικά μη ντρέπεσαι. έχουμε και Google translate
@@projectmic1829 Θα σε νικήσω με το πουλί σου
Love these vids this is truly history unmaked stuff enough with romanticized history ,its always been brutal bloody and violent all in the name of peace love and faith😊
There is nothing worse than what humans due to humans. And atrocities have been committed since the dawn of man....
maybe it is about time we bring this back!!
I can't be the only one that started singing in my head when he read the Lyrics to "Brave Sir Robin" Right?
"A eunuch could not be emperor because the emperor was the symbol of manhood."
Irene: hold my beer 🍺
Charlemagne and the pope had something to say about that
@@biggibbs4678 Pope? You mean Patriarch of Rome.
@@martinnolhaf3151 based!
😂😂😂😂😂
Am i the only one who thinks having a portrait of the Bulgarian Tzar Simeon I as an example of a Roman Emperor
3:43 Rhinometos means nothing I'm afraid (actually it means nose in classical Greek and nose in Modern Greek = nosenose). The correct word is RhinoTmetos (slit-nosed).
9:04 Orthodox Priests can be married ONLY if they were married before becoming priests. Otherwise marriage is not allowed. Bishops are not allowed to be married at all. Also, to become a priest you can't be an eunuch.
11:51 As a Greek I confirm that Basil the II is not a hero in Greece.. I've never heard of that! We've so many other heroes...
Finally, the graphics that you are using are awesome! I love them.
I'm surprised that nobody has produced a big budget historical drama series, like HBO's ''Rome'' or maybe something like ''Vikings'' or GoT, yet.
I mean there was so much crazy shieet going on, during the era of the Byzantine Empire.
Invasions from ''barbarians'', civil wars, riots, tons of political scheming, assassinations, successor wars, religious conflicts that spiraled out into full-blown civil wars ( like the whole argument about the religious icons in churches, mentioned in the video), more successor wars, more wars with outside "barbarians'' etc. etc.
The whole reign of emperor Justinian alone, for example has enough material for several seasons.
it was am eastern empire, and as such, more foreign to the western world.
I think the emperor would be thrilled with todays science, but i think matter in human bodies still would not be mercifully spared everlasting or not. Had to watch this one since the thumbnail looked like me :D
Basil Lekapenos: I'm missing something
Friend: You Lekapenos
Clever
Bruh "lekapenos" had me dieing like what a name lol
Princess Bride had the best description
To the pain!
9:07 imagine having his last name nowadays
I see what you did there👀
First of all, these are not unspeakable here in Hellas. Second, the most risky thing someone could do that period, was to claim Roman land. Third, Basil did not blind the Bulgarians in order to torture them. He wanted to kill them all, but church didn't accept mass killing. So, he wanted to make them unable to fight again. And for last, I wanna mention that one common torture we used for captured soldiers, was to pull out his nails at the hand. Not breaking them, but take them out of the finger entirely. If you think that this does not hurt, I am telling you have no idea how painful it is.
"his bottom burned"!!! brave Sir Robin Bravely ran away...
Now do one on the unspeakable punishments of the Persian Empire and one on the punishments of the Ottoman Empire.
To be fair the byzantine weren't any more brutal than their neighbors, they just had the ability to do it on a greater scale.
Actually they were the least brutal people of their time. You should see what was going on around them at the time. Or compare the earlier Romans who were far more brutal. "Byzanines" (basically we talk of medieval Greeks for the most plus a few peripheral groups used as shock absorbers) saw as their ancestors the ancient Greeks who were not saints either. We tend to forget how brutal were ancient Greeks and it is true that ancient Greek writers were often omitting gruesome details. Medieval writers were a bit more frank in that sense at least.
@@dinos9607Same with modern greeks starting from 1821 when we did many things to turks during the revolution but we were much better than our neighbours
Basilios Bulgar Slayer left 1 out of each 100 one-eyed, to lead them back to king Samuel. When Samuel saw his blinded army, he got a heart attack and died. This is how the first Bulgarian Kingdom ended. It is peculiar to notice, that Samuel was a son of a noble man from the lands of what is now Macedonia. See the book "The First Bulgarian Kingdom" by Sir Steven Runciman.
Cool
Tsar* Samuil and there were 2 (arguably 3) rulers after Samuil. Also Sredets (Medieval Sofia) is not in Macedonia.
It's amazing that humans have made it this far...
Legs firmly crossed...
Now I know where the phrase " cutting-off one's nose despite one's face" comes from, it was used by all of my elders growing up.
The phrase is "to cut off one's nose to spite one's face." Not despite. It means being so petty and vindictive that you will readily hurt yourself more in an effort to hurt somebody else
@@nicholasbrown4109 I always preferred the malapropism "cut your nose to spider face"
Very allegorical, dysentery in the ranks.
Excellent and entertaining video. Yes we of Greek descent tend to think only the Ottomans who defeated Byzantium were barbaric, unfortunately anyone with sense knows that all empires are based on barbarism, the few more recent ones I won't mention are no exception.
Can't we just be nice to each other?
Lekker video boet
At 2:39 the ruler is Simeon The Great - tzar of Bulgaria from 893 to 927 AD, not a byzantine emperor.
The unspeakable acts of the empire. Guess what we’re going to talk about!!
And i thought the world was crazy these days..🤯🤯
Byzantine History be like: Emperor Myrízeiklaniá the Ass-Smacker was assassinated by his own guard following the riots that broke out after the Greens victory over the Blues in the latest chariot race. Compassionately, the guards decided to give him a comparatively humane death of surgically removing his organs, saving the vital ones for last"
"the unspeakable punishmnets"
**speaks about them for 12 minutes**
Unspeakable punishments... that now we shall talk about
People were far more cruel in the past
In many ways we still are
True. Things have gotten a little better though.
This doesn't mean, they would not Do this if it was still allowed.
You just haven’t spent enough time on gore sites.
@@activatekruger446 Cruelty always exists among citizens, on some level. But institutionalised cruelty carried out by authorities in most countries is mild compared to earlier centuries. There are exceptions of course.
The People of the west Roman Empire were speaking Latin the people of the East Roman Empire were speaking Greek
The Unspeakable Punishments of the Byzantine Empire; speaks on them
A castrati is actually a male singer who had been castrated at a young age, so he retains the powerful voice of a man, but his voice does not deepen, giving a unique and much desired voice when singing. The movie Farenelli is about a castrati. There are no recordings of a castrati voice, so we dont know what they really sounded like. The movie blended both male and female voices electronically to produce what we estimate to he a castrati voice.
It is not another name for a eunuch.
Interestengly, the division of the Roman Empire was already prophesied 1000 years earlier in the Old Testament. The Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II had a dream in which he saw how a gigantic statue made of different metals collapsed. Daniel, a Jewish prophet who lived with his people in Babylon after the King destroyed Jerusalem, told him that his dream symbolized that his Empire and all those that would come after (which represent the metals of the statues) would eventually fall and that only the Kingdom of God would be eternal. These empires were the Babylonian, the Achaemenid, the Macedonian and the Roman. Interestingly, the two legs of the statue are the representation of the Roman civilization, which suspiciously reminds us of the fact that Empire would end up dividing into two separate governments
What an effing reach
It's easier to believe Daniel spoke in general about secular vs the Messianic Kingdom, rather than specifics. If it was the latter, why didn't he foresee the Islamic empires? or were *they* the Kingdom of God?
@@geeljire9247 Daniel gave especific details about the empires represented in the metals of the statues. At the time of talking about the legs, he stated that the Empire represented would fall because "it would be so diverse to maintain it". He obviously was referring to the roman empire, as it gigantic size was one of the main reasons it ended up falling
@@OptimusMaximusNero How was the "obviously" referring the Roman Empire? What's obvious about it? There have been other empires you could somehow fit in a split in government that would also be "obvious". If you have to interpret a prediction, it's not a prediction.
@@Whydoyoureadme Because the Roman Empire was the main Empire that controlled the people of God (Judea) after Alexander.
You should have mentioned that Tatikios was most likely from a Turkic background and became one of the most influential men in the empire without being royal
What's the music title pllayed in the background?
Bank in the day it was a competition, who can come up with the most brutal torture methods
Calling the Empire "Byzantine" would've probably led you to be rhinotomized.
and with every right.
Real shit hahaha.
Lekapenos is a great name for a castrati!
"Braaave Sir Robin ran away."
I'm trying to find proof of the definition you gave at the end but I can't find anything
Game of throne left the chat, 🙄