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Because his chicken was named rome and thought he got lost
Mmm no particular reason......
When he was corrected that the City was lost he was relieved
Spineless emperor.
Bruh
The east was OK basically
Arcadius was weak; but Theodosius II came in and ruled for 50 years
In the West some bloke named Valentinian III came along
He was powerless and controlled by anyone around him
Ended up being convinced to kill his best general; Flavius Aetius
He was assassinated in 455 AD.
His successor wasn’t better and got stoned to death by a mob
From there, the west was falling terribly
A general named Majorian tried his best to recover territory and succeeded
Except in the early 460s, a despot general named Ricimer killed him.
Rome fell in 476 AD shortly after.
The east on the other hand was fine.
Leo I The Thracian and Marcian handled the Huns and barbarians well
Then came along a homie named Zeno in 476
His own brother in law convinced him that his life was in danger and nicked the throne while he was gone.
Zeno promised to not shed his blood so he left him and his family to die in a cistern.
Zeno ruled until his death in 491?
All was ok; an old emperor came to throne; Anastasius I Dicorus
Anastasius completely filled up the NOW Byzantine treasury
His time came by; and for his successor Justin I
Then came Justinian I
People see him as great; and yeah; sure.
He conquered territory
But he let the Nika Riots go by and drained the treasury
Not amazing, but he was a good emperor overall
His successor Justin II his nephew was a bit insane.
Died after a short reign
His successors were fine souls; coming up to a lad named Maurice
Maurice was on the danube frontier in 602 when a Centurion named Phokas overthrew him and executed him
People say phokas was miserably terrible, but I’ll explain later
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.
Phokas was quite unpopular, but he ended up doing OK. Sort of better than his successor
Heraclius was the next in line who had him killed in 608.
maurice from king julien
Heraclius held off the Sassanids pretty well for 30 years until trouble brewed in the Levant