from a geopolitical standpoint the eastern roman empire is often depicted as the sick man of the middle ages however amidst the constant territorial retreat there were periods when they pushed back against the invading tide in the early medieval period a string of capable military-minded men would bring triumph to byzantium and secure the time survival of the empire welcome to our new mini-series on the early resurgence of eastern rome where we will cover the territorial gains of the empire from the NUMBER_TOKENth to NUMBER_TOKENth century in this episode we will cover the origins of the macedonian dynasty with a focus on the rise of nikiphora's focus the pale death of the saracens and if you want to learn more about roman history you have to check out the sponsor of this video and our most loyal partner magellan tv this is the favorite documentary platform of kings and generals and we hope that our viewers love it too magellan tv is a documentary streaming service run by filmmakers that has over NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN documentaries among them hundreds of historical documentaries if you want more roman history check out hidden history of rome hosted by monty python's terry jones who answers the question what have the romans ever done for us in a humorous fashion we also recommend the six-part documentary series called i caesar the rise and fall of the roman empire you can watch both anytime anywhere on your television laptop or mobile device and it's compatible with most devices our viewers can now take advantage of an exclusive offer thirty percent off an annual membership this gives you an entire year for less than three dollars fifty a month every documentary we've watched has been worth double that and there are now three thousand in the magellan tv collection this offer is available to returning users too simply click on the link in the description to claim your discounted annual membership today support our channel and do that at URL_TOKEN kings and generals start your free trial today in the year NUMBER_TOKEN a.d the eastern roman empire was a shadow of its former self three centuries earlier the grand ambitions of emperor justinian had created a mediterranean juggernaut worthy of being spoken of in the same breath as the empires of augustus and trajan now little of justinian's legacy remained the bellicose lombards had pushed the eastern romans to the very fringes of italy constant migrations of slavs and bulgars along the danube had put an immense strain on the empire's balkan territories and even before that the meteoric rise of a nato islamic faith had permanently deprived the romans of egypt syria and north africa perhaps the greatest threat to the emperors in constantinople were the aforementioned muslim arabs who in a stark departure from their desert dwelling roots had taken to the seas to become the most deadly sailors of the mediterranean coast in NUMBER_TOKEN the byzantines suffered two major losses to two different factions of muslim corsairs the young tunisia-based aglabid emirate struck at sicily beginning the NUMBER_TOKEN-year-long conquest of that island while a roving band of political exiles from islamic
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN and if you want to learn more about roman history you have to check out the sponsor of this video and our most loyal partner magellan tv this is the favorite documentary platform of kings and generals and we hope that our viewers love it too magellan tv is a documentary streaming service run by filmmakers that has over NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN documentaries among them hundreds of historical documentaries if you want more roman history check out hidden history of rome hosted by monty python's terry jones who answers the question what have the romans ever done for us in a humorous fashion we also recommend the six-part documentary series called i caesar the rise and fall of the roman empire you can watch both anytime anywhere on your television laptop or mobile device and it's compatible with most devices our viewers can now take advantage of an exclusive offer thirty percent off an annual membership this gives you an entire year for less than three dollars fifty a month every documentary we've watched has been worth double that and there are now three thousand in the magellan tv collection this offer is available to returning users too simply click on the link in the description to claim your discounted annual membership today support our channel and do that at URL_TOKEN kings and generals start your free trial today END_SPONSOR_TOKEN