11. Byzantium - Last of the Romans
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Rise of the Byzantine Empire
The byzantine empire built three great open air cisterns near the theodosian walls. The largest of these, known as the basilica cistern, has three hundredad 66 columns supporting its immense under ground vaults. They also cast an enormous iron chain, its links as thick as a man's arm, that could be winched across the whole length of the golden horn barring entry to the port from any would be attackers. But through the eleventh century, a new threat was rising - the rise of the selduk turks. In the year ten 71, the byzantine emperor romanos marched an army of forty thousand soldiers into asia to meet
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