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Later historians' name for the Eastern Roman Empire, whose people still called themselves Romans.
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Byzantine Empire
Later historians' name for the Eastern Roman Empire, whose people still called themselves Romans.
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Jiang says Putin's mission, under this hypothesis, is to finish Stalin's failed mission by restoring the Byzantine Empire and making Moscow's Third Rome destiny real.
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The hypothesis says Putin wants to restore the Byzantine Empire, unify the Orthodox world, and retake Constantinople, with Ukraine as the mechanism for those ambitions.
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Jiang presents the Byzantine-Sassanian war around 600 CE as an earlier end-times setting in which Jews in diaspora sought a messiah and a return to Jerusalem.
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Rome and Charlemagne create the Holy Roman Empire as a competitor to Byzantium and as a mechanism for securing Roman church legitimacy against other major churches.
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Jiang treats the Byzantine Empire as historically continuous with Rome but argues that explaining it requires asking why Constantine moved the capital, why the empire endured, and why it declined.
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The central historical puzzle is how poor desert nomads defeated the Byzantine and Sassanian empires and conquered territory from Spain to India in less than a century.
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"grandson it's possible this very precocious young man it is possible that he could be a second coming of Stalin okay and so this..."
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"this prophecy is attributed most famously to a Greek Orthodox monk named Passios of Mount Anthos there's controversy as to whether or not he..."
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"...Turkey Constantinople back to the Greeks and this will restore the Byzantine Empire. The Hagia Sophia, the main Cathedral in Constantinople, which was the..."
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"...which is, what does Putin want? Putin wants to restore the Byzantine Empire. He wants to unify the Orthodox world. And he wants to..."
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"...going on between the two major powers of that age. The Byzantine Empire, based in Constantinople, and then you have the Sassanian Persian Empire...."
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"There was religious persecution. It really felt like the end times, the end of days. Also, at this time, the Jews were banned from..."
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"...the Roman Empire, which at this time had not become the Byzantine Empire. Back in the Jewish diaspora, they were trying to figure out..."
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"...the Jews, and then the Christians called for help to the Byzantine Empire. At this time, a new general, Heraclius, had emerged, and he..."
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"...idea of the Holy Roman Empire as a competitor to the Byzantine Empire and as a mechanism in order to ensure the legitimacy and..."
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"All right? And this will eventually climax in something called the Great Schism. The Great Schism. And we'll study this later on. The idea..."
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"As you can see, it is extremely difficult to protect Rome against the barbarian invaders over time. Eventually, the western portion of the empire..."
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"...who makes this transition... Who basically is the founder of the Byzantine Empire. His name is Constantine the Great. And what he does that's..."
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The episode begins with two escalations: Ukraine expands, Iran heats up.
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The episode starts with Iran and ends with Putin, but the real machinery is the formula between them: mass times energy times coordination.
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
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