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

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

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.

He was killed in his own tub by his chamberlain with a bucket.

Whoops!

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