Rewind by chapter
11. Byzantium - Last of the Romans: chapters
Timestamps from the YouTube edition.
- A visitor among the ruins
- A surviving Roman empire
- Sea and empire
- Expansion and disease
- A new capital
- The site of Byzantium
- Building Constantinople
- Walls and refugees
- Attila approaches
- Repairing the walls
- Two halves of an empire
- The western collapse
- Refuge and ambition
- Justinian and his critics
- Church, silk and water
- Reconquest and its costs
- The limits of restoration
- Arab conquests
- Pressure by land and sea
- Fire and survival