Theodora's Time to Shine - Nika Riots | Plague of Justinian
Channel: Memento Mori History
Date: 2022-10-14

Theodora's Time to Shine - Nika Riots | Plague of Justinian #3

The third video in the Plague of Justinian series, the First Plague Pandemic. Take a look at the Nika riots that nearly burnt Constantinople to the ground, nearly forced Justinian to flee, and scarred the Byzantine Empire just before the arrival of the Plague of Justinian. Constantinople would never be the same.

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Sources:
The Books of the Wars - Procopius of Caesarea
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
Justinian’s Flea – William Rosen
History of the Later Roman Empire – JB Bury
Justinian and the Byzantine – Andrea Giordani
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law – Justinian and the Corpus Iuris Civilis

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00:00 Introduction
00:51 Nika Riots
07:42 Restoring the Empire
14:47 Outro