Fourth Crusade: From Sack to Restoration - Medieval DOCUMENTARY

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  @KingsandGenerals · 4 years ago (edited) · pinned

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• PR

  @prussianblue9316 · 4 years ago

  - Blinds and imprisones his brother, the emperor.<br> - Becomes the emperor.<br>- Bribes everyone<br>- Has no interest in ruling.<br>- Doesnt elaborate

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• WI

  @WizardsandWarriors · 4 years ago

  I am going to release a long video of my own when I grow up...

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• MO

  @moriakpotato · 4 years ago

  &quot;But suddenly the Nicaean emperor cut down the rear leg of the horse and decapitated the Seljuk leader.&quot; - That&apos;s pretty badass.

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• OM

  @OmegaTrooper · 4 years ago

  Basically better than anything on History Channel the last 20 years.

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• DA

  @dansolo5854 · 4 years ago

  The sack of Constantinople was a hard watch. The frustration i felt about the whole situation almost brought me to tears. I can only imagine how frustrated, sad, and powerless the people of Constantinople felt seeing their valuable city and timeless artifacts destroyed piece by piece.

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• JA

  @JawsOfHistory · 4 years ago

  This is such a fascinating era of history. The scale of destruction and rebuilding is virtually impossible to wrap your head around in the era of machinery. This was a city that was built up for nearly a thousand years. Destroyed by the people sent to save it and then somehow managed to recover and maintain its relevance for another 250 years. Magnificent effort!

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• NI

  @niallreid7664 · 4 years ago

  Pardon the language, but my god what a complete clusterfuck the 4th crusade was.<br><br>On a side note, just recently found your channel and I&apos;m having a BLAST. Great content, you&apos;ve helped rekindle my love of history, thank you.

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  @pseudomonas03 · 4 years ago

  What the Laskarids&apos;s Dynasty achieved (i would include Michael Palaiologos with them, since he was started as their general), was a huge labor. Starting with a single city, Nicaea, they defeated gradually the Seljuks, the Latins, the Bulgars, and the other states-successors of Epirus and Trabezond, and succeded to free Constantinople, and restore the Empire. Glory to Theodore I Laskaris, John III Doukas Vatatzes and Theodore II Laskaris!

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  @untruelie2640 · 4 years ago (edited)

  The sacking of Constantinople is one of the greatest tragedies in european history. So much of the remaining cultural and scientific heritage of Rome was lost. Not to mention all the human lives...<br>To quote Captain Picard: &quot;You just commited an act of utter barbarity!&quot;

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• ST

  @Stabi470 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Damn, listening to the narrator speak of the extensive looting of Constantinople is absolutely gut-wrenching.

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• ER

  @ericponce8740 · 4 years ago

  Eastern Rome never truly recovered from its sack in 1204. The ports of Constantinople were controlled by Italians and little revenue was coming into the state coffers of Eastern Rome. Slowly over the centuries its Anatolian lands were controlled by the Turks. By 1400, Constantinople was bankrupt. And the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 was the liquidation of Eastern Rome.

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