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Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on Medieval history, Roman history and the evolution of Armies and Tactics continues with a video in which we discuss the Eastern Roman Army from the very beginnings during the reign of Justinian all the way to the fall of the empire in 1453 at the hand of the Ottoman Empire with the siege of Constantinople. We will talk about the tactics, structure, weapons, armor, recruitment, navy, soldiers, mercenaries, manuals, geostrategy, fortifications, spies, diplomacy, Greek Fire, how Georgian, Armenian, Turkic, Serbian, Bulgarian, Catalan and other troops were integrated into the army.

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The video was made by Arb Paninken http://bit.ly/2Ow3oC8, while the script was developed by Dimitris Koutsoumis and Matt Hollis. This video was narrated by Officially Devin (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU0-VII-V376zFxiRGMeZGg & https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC79s7EdN9uXX77-Ly2HmEjQ)

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00:00:00 Intro
00:02:20 Early Origins of the Byzantine Army
00:17:14 Byzantine Military Manuals - Strategikon
00:33:36 Structure of the Byzantine Army, Themata and Tagmata
00:52:48 How the Eastern Roman Army Declined
01:07:07 Byzantine Navy
01:09:03 Dromon
01:10:58 Greek Fire
01:14:43 Naval Tactics
01:16:54 Naval Organization
01:18:38 Decline of the Byzantine Navy
01:20:58 Georgian and Armenian troops
01:22:30 Catalan Company
01:29:11 Serb and Bulgarian troops 
01:30:53 Turkic troops
01:35:37 Geopolitical Situation
01:44:44 Spies and Diplomats 
01:51:26 Early Fortifications and the Theodosian Walls
01:54:18 Structure of the Theodosian Walls
02:00:35 Walls of Blachernae and Sea Walls

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