Backer Rewards Episode 4 - Lucky Romans and Being a Celebrity
The History of Byzantium
Robin Pierson
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Some things just add some play to your day. |
| 0:02.8 | Catching the toast is it pops out of the toaster. |
| 0:05.5 | Dancing down the street to your favourite place. |
| 0:08.8 | Wearing a sparkly boots to the shop. |
| 0:11.2 | Best of all, picking the new pink scratch card. |
| 0:13.8 | A pink scratch card, please. |
| 0:15.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:16.6 | And doing your own drum roll. |
| 0:18.4 | This is exciting. |
| 0:21.4 | Add some play to your day. |
| 0:22.8 | The scratch cards from the National Lottery. |
| 0:24.8 | So it's three big, place more. |
| 0:26.4 | Brawls and receivers are by a place where it's the 18 or over. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:34.0 | Today we have another Backers Rewards episode where I answer listener questions. |
| 0:39.0 | And the focus is again on Constantinople and then a little personal question at the end. |
| 0:47.0 | So listener GR has a couple of comments for us. |
| 0:51.0 | He says, |
| 0:53.0 | I have a view that the Romans got lucky at the end of the third century with the reign of Diocletian. |
| 1:00.0 | Without his recognition that the Empire was unwieldy and that the Eastern West had problems that needed addressing locally, |
| 1:09.0 | the Empire would not have been split into Eastern West. |
| 1:13.0 | Without the need for an Eastern capital, the village of Byzantium would never have been developed by the Romans. |
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