Creation of the Medieval Roman Army

Something smart will be here

Byzantines when they see something helpful in their enemies: ''Write that down, write that down!''

Barbarians: can we join your army Byzantines: tell me a Reason Barbarians: we like the color purple Byzantines: you're in

Procopius was like: THE FUTURE IS NOW, OLD MEN.

Byzantine enemy: "My tactics." The Byzantines: "OUR tactics."

“Your tactics and weapons will be assimilated” - Romans/Byzantine Empire probably

I will say, the armor and outfits of the Byzantines and Sassanids in the 500s/600s is one of the coolest-looking military aesthetics in history. It's got the elegance of ancient and classical times but also the protection and sturdiness of the later middle ages.

Having a wallet as a sponsor for the byzantine army episode is oddly fitting

Byzantine military: "Improvise. Adapt. Overcome".

Omg we have lived long enough to witness a Byzantine Army and Tactics video!

I bring my PURPLE SILK as a tribute FOR THE KING AND GENERALS!!!!!!

I love watching the Eastern Roman military and Eastern Roman Empire.

Fun fact there was never a byzantine army but a late medieval roman army

Change in military doctrine (esp. the shift in emphasis from the heavy infantry legions to the armored cavalry archers) didn't make the Eastern Roman Empire less Roman, anymore than the British Army's shift from redcoats to the khaki uniform didn't make it less British.

Those are more horse archers than expected. But one has to wonder, though. Given the influence of nomadic tribes of horse archers in Europe during late antiquity, why it didn't became an stablished practice during the early Middle Ages at least? In comparison with the front charge lance wielding knight that stablished later, I mean.

What’s a Byzantine battle cry?

I think I've listened to three audiobooks now, on the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. I always feel a sense of tragedy whenever I go down the rabbit hole. For an empire to have withheld for so long, against so many existential calamities, it truly is remarkable. So impactful that Tolkien used it as a baseline in developing the story of Gondor in the Middle Earth universe.

I love how King's of Generals subtly and intelligently claps back at people who believe that the Imperial Legions were the ultimate fighting force and all changes made to it, made the Roman army worse. When in fact it was the smarter move I really have been waiting for this one! Please do

I just wanted to say, they are still some ΄΄romans''' alive, I am Pontic Greek and i was listening all my childhood from my grandparents that we are Romioi (Romans) as a small kid i never connect the dots Rome and Romioi. When i was going to school and i learned about Byzantium, i connected the dots and i asked my grandparents about it. They never went to school because of the wars and persecutions. you see my great grandparents were born in Trabzon (Pontic Greeks) in early 20th century. They fled the area of Pontus in the end of Greek Turkish war of 1919-1922 after the beginning of the genocide (same era as the armenian genocide) . the closest Christian country was Russia, so many greeks of the eastern side of Anatolia fled there. They lived in today Georgia, until Stalin's Persecutions and the Soviet's atheism plan, many Greeks and Jews well expelled from Caucasus area to Kazakhstan, Uzbekinstan, Turkmenistan. My grandparents saw themselves near the city of Almata (!!!). They came to Greece with the first opportunity, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. They knew they were Greeks, they never learned this in school, cause the never went, but they called themselves Romioi (Romans), when i told them about Roman empire,Greeks, Byzantium, Ottomans etc. they said to me that, ''we dont know much about history, but i can tell you that, my parents and grandparents were calling themselves Romans aswell, actually every christian at that time had the name Roman, and the Turks called us Rum, so we just asume that every greek christian had the name roman.'' ((see modern history of Limnos, Greek island, after the Greek army captured it from the ottomans, Some of the children ran to see what Greek soldiers looked like. ‘‘What are you looking at?’’ one of them asked. ‘‘At Hellenes,’’ the children replied. ‘‘Are you not Hellenes yourselves?’’ a soldier retorted. ‘‘No, we are Romans." the children replied. source Wikipedia.)). They called and calling themselves Romans, without even knowing what it means, after so many hundred of yeas of foreign occupation, they kept their tradition from ancient Greece (see Pyrrhichios dance from pontic greeks,) to the end of ''Roman'' rule and from Ottoman rule to modern Greece. I am sorry for my bad English and for my long post, i just wanted to share it with people instersting about Byzantium.

Oh my god a Byzantine video from Kings and Generals? The Byzantophile in me is pleased