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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.
Basiliscus was killed in 477 in Cappadocia.
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
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
Something happened in 632 AD, anyone know what?
Muslim
AllahuAkbarman died
Aka Muhammad
So; Moslems began erupting
The sassanids and byzantines went to fight them
In 636, at the mouth of the Yarmouk river
The Arabs completely smashed an army that outnumbered them
Heraclius was broken, and he died years later. Poor soul, all he worked for was destroyed
His successor did his best to hold off the Arabs and did perfectly fine.
Constans II Pogonatos became unpopular towards the end of his reign in 668.