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Early Access! Chapter 4: Vanquishing the Vandals (Patreon)

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2015-07-10 11:07:01
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His rule restored, his city rebuilt... yet Justinian cannot rest. How can he call himself a Roman emperor when he doesn't control Rome?

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Byzantine Empire: Justinian and Theodora - IV: Vanquishing the Vandals - Extra History

Support us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon Watch the Justinian and Theodora series! http://bit.ly/1J89hPd Subscribe for new episodes every Saturday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC Follow us on Facebook! http://bit.ly/ECFBPage Follow us on Twitter! http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Twitch! http://bit.y/ECTwitch ____________ Thirty-nine days after the disastrous Nika Riots ended with the slaughter of 30,000 civilians, Justinian directed the city to rebuild the Hagia Sophia.

Comments

ExtraCredits

We'll be fixing the thumbnail's backwards letters before it goes live, don't worry. ;)

Colin

Wonderful! I've been looking forward to this all week!

Nicholas Russell

Nice episode dude! Looking forward to the next one.

Martin Ockovsky

<3 Not just the way you tell the story, but also the drawings :D I laughed a lot:D Great work, thank you very muchest! <3

Michael Jebbett

Makes you wonder how different Western civilization would be if Justinian had succeeded in his campaign to unite the former empire.

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>>629176

Thanks for the kind words! Did you catch the little easter egg David slipped in near the end?

The Cayute

Damnit, EC crew! Quit building me up just to make me sad for the hero's defeat! ...Unless you're gonna kick Blunt some more, then totally do it :P

Jason Youngberg

Last time I wondered what would happen if he was able to prevent the riots. Now I wonder if the riots were prevented, would it have pushed him to retake the West? Was there something about seeing his city nearly get destroyed that drove him in later conquests?

Luna

It seems like this episode includes more gaming metaphors than previous ones, especially toward the middle (starting with the Konami code, continuing with the achievement, the conquering progress bar). Am I just not remembering this sort of imagery in other videos, or is this intentional? If so, keep it up! The metaphors work well in communicating with your target audience and, at least in my case, make me feel awesome because I get the references.

Martin Ockovsky
>>629176

Do you mean Belasarius marching with that British guy from last EH ... season? :D

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>>630793

We've done a few here and there, but I think David had a couple of great game-related ideas to tie in this episodes and they worked really well, so we ran with it! Every so often, I suppose we ought to remind folks that we also talk about games. ;)

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>>630132

That'd be a really interesting conversation. I know there's evidence that he was already planning to rebuild the Hagia Sophia (you don't just start a project like that in 39 days - it'd take longer than that just to get the architectural plan, much elss the resources) so he certainly had lofty ambitions throughout his reign.

Hessi

Good work not portraying the Vandals as the roman propaganda showed them, brutal barbarians and conquerors. As newer archeological finds showed, when the Vandals arrived in North Africa, they integrated into the populace very quickly, rather enjoying the roman culture than destroying it.