1.08 Pens and Swords
The Fatimid Caliphate goes the way of the Byzantine Roman Empire and as political legitimacy is lost, civil war and famine grip the land. The Armenian-led military dictatorship that arises out of this...
21 Feb 202140min
1.07 Bound by Hate
As the Byzantine Roman Empire crumbles Post-Manzikert, the Armenians begin to set up their own little petty kingdoms. More than any other group, these Armenians will be the closest native allies of th...
7 Feb 202137min
1.06 All Roads Lead to Manzikert
In 1071, the Roman Emperor Romanos Diogenes met the Seljuk Sultan Alp Arslan in battle outside the city of Manzikert. The result of the conflict would shape the history of the Anatolian peninsula to t...
24 Jan 202137min
1.05 Help Me, Romanos Diogenes, You're My Only Hope
The Byzantine Roman Empire continues to crumble as the Macedonian Dynasty comes to an end and as foreign invaders start to rip chunks out the empire in both the east and the west, they end up turning ...
24 Jan 202137min
1.04 Steppe by Steppe
At the beginning of the 11th century, the Abbasid Caliphate was shattered and rival forces like the Roman Empire and the Shia Islam Fatimid Caliphate were carving up the region that would one day hous...
10 Jan 202134min
1.03 VENI VIDI GRAECE LOCVTVS SVM
When the Crusades were called in 1096, the official reason for this venture that would result in the creation of the Outremer States was to assist the Byzantine Roman Empire in reclaiming lost territo...
27 Dec 202033min
1.02 Come from the Land of the Ice and Snow
In the 11th century, decades before the First Crusade, Norman mercenaries arrived in southern Italy. They would consolidate all of Southern Italy and Sicily into one kingdom. In doing so, not only did...
13 Dec 202031min
1.01 The Order of God
Our story starts in the year 1009, when the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim orders the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Not only do the Caliph's actions stir up the first rumbling...
29 Nov 202030min
