Message from @!?_Quantum_Physics

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2020-03-19 00:54:12 UTC  

Because his chicken was named rome and thought he got lost

2020-03-19 00:54:17 UTC  

Mmm no particular reason......

2020-03-19 00:54:25 UTC  

When he was corrected that the City was lost he was relieved

2020-03-19 00:54:28 UTC  

Spineless emperor.

2020-03-19 00:54:34 UTC  

Bruh

2020-03-19 00:54:40 UTC  

The east was OK basically

2020-03-19 00:54:53 UTC  

Arcadius was weak; but Theodosius II came in and ruled for 50 years

2020-03-19 00:55:06 UTC  

In the West some bloke named Valentinian III came along

2020-03-19 00:55:18 UTC  

He was powerless and controlled by anyone around him

2020-03-19 00:55:37 UTC  

Ended up being convinced to kill his best general; Flavius Aetius

2020-03-19 00:55:47 UTC  

He was assassinated in 455 AD.

2020-03-19 00:56:00 UTC  

His successor wasn’t better and got stoned to death by a mob

2020-03-19 00:56:12 UTC  

From there, the west was falling terribly

2020-03-19 00:56:30 UTC  

A general named Majorian tried his best to recover territory and succeeded

2020-03-19 00:56:49 UTC  

Except in the early 460s, a despot general named Ricimer killed him.

2020-03-19 00:56:56 UTC  

Rome fell in 476 AD shortly after.

2020-03-19 00:57:03 UTC  

The east on the other hand was fine.

2020-03-19 00:57:24 UTC  

Leo I The Thracian and Marcian handled the Huns and barbarians well

2020-03-19 00:57:40 UTC  

Then came along a homie named Zeno in 476

2020-03-19 00:57:59 UTC  

His own brother in law convinced him that his life was in danger and nicked the throne while he was gone.

2020-03-19 00:58:16 UTC  

Basiliscus was killed in 477 in Cappadocia.

2020-03-19 00:58:26 UTC  

Zeno promised to not shed his blood so he left him and his family to die in a cistern.

2020-03-19 00:58:40 UTC  

Zeno ruled until his death in 491?

2020-03-19 00:58:57 UTC  

All was ok; an old emperor came to throne; Anastasius I Dicorus

2020-03-19 00:59:17 UTC  

Anastasius completely filled up the NOW Byzantine treasury

2020-03-19 00:59:24 UTC  

His time came by; and for his successor Justin I

2020-03-19 00:59:31 UTC  

Then came Justinian I

2020-03-19 00:59:46 UTC  

People see him as great; and yeah; sure.

2020-03-19 00:59:51 UTC  

He conquered territory

2020-03-19 01:00:01 UTC  

But he let the Nika Riots go by and drained the treasury

2020-03-19 01:00:12 UTC  

Not amazing, but he was a good emperor overall

2020-03-19 01:00:24 UTC  

His successor Justin II his nephew was a bit insane.

2020-03-19 01:00:39 UTC  

Died after a short reign

2020-03-19 01:00:55 UTC  

His successors were fine souls; coming up to a lad named Maurice

2020-03-19 01:01:29 UTC  

Maurice was on the danube frontier in 602 when a Centurion named Phokas overthrew him and executed him

2020-03-19 01:01:45 UTC  

People say phokas was miserably terrible, but I’ll explain later

2020-03-19 01:02:16 UTC  

Phokas had a lot to deal with since the Sassanid emperor named Khosrau declared war on the Byzantine empire, and there were Slavs in the west.

2020-03-19 01:02:43 UTC  

Phokas was quite unpopular, but he ended up doing OK. Sort of better than his successor

2020-03-19 01:02:55 UTC  

Heraclius was the next in line who had him killed in 608.

2020-03-19 01:03:08 UTC  

maurice from king julien

2020-03-19 01:03:17 UTC  

Heraclius held off the Sassanids pretty well for 30 years until trouble brewed in the Levant