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Ep 207 - Constantinople 3: There's Decline...
🕑 Added 2025-02-20 13:00:19 +0000 UTCpatrons, here is your ad free version of this week's regular episode, we answer questions from Quixotic and Kipple Snacks in this one.
folks, we're back after a brief hiatus, and back into our series on Constantinople. this time, we take a look at the beginning of the decline of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, which started in 567 after Justinian I's death. but, as civilizational declines go, it wasn't so bad for the first 500 years or so. however, the myriad factors that would lead to the fall of Constantinople were beginning to pile up even before Justinian's reign and they would only get worse as things went along. factors such as the city's propensity for riots and civil wars, the rise of Islam, Iconoclasm, the East-West Schism, and more! so this time, we talk about these factors and follow the gradual decline through the first five Medieval Byzantine dynasties. then next time, we will talk about real DECLINE.
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Do Golems Dream of Ceramic Sheep
Eleanor's friends asking her to not make double entendres and not think about demon jizz is giving major "Frog and the Scorpion" vibes
Daniel Stone
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