Episode 117 - Questions IV

The History of Byzantium

Robin Pierson

History

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🗓️ 28 October 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Its time for some of your questions. We cover queries about the Bulgars, Slavs, Greece, Coins and modern Romania.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the history of Byzantium.
0:12.8	Episode 117 Questions 4
0:20.2	Today I answer your questions about the neighbours of the Byzantine Empire, those peoples we've
0:26.2	been discussing for the last six episodes, and a few other questions that relate to Byzantium
0:32.6	and the West.
0:34.4	And that will conclude our tour of the empire's edges, and we will then begin to discuss
0:39.4	what's changed within the Roman world over the past hundred years.
0:46.4	Listener P starts us off with an easy one.
0:49.7	The Bulgar's were not slabs, right?
0:53.3	If so, I take it that modern Bulgaria, which is mostly Slavic, is not to be confused with the ancient Bulgarian state.
1:02.9	Hopefully by this point, listener P is fully in the picture, but just in case, the Bulgar's were a step tribe,
1:10.7	who as far as we know spoke a Turkic language.
1:13.9	They arrived in the Balkans back in 670, but over the next two centuries they were slowly slavised by the settled peoples they lived amongst,
1:22.5	the majority of whom were slavs, and so it was to be Slavic names and the Slavic language which came to dominate.
1:29.7	The Bulgar's would also slowly lose the lifestyle that they had brought from the steps and become a sedentary people.
1:37.7	And these patterns of adaption should be entirely familiar after last week's episode, where we learnt for example that the Rus,
1:46.1	a Scandinavian warrior elite will slowly adapt to the ways of their majority, Slav, population, and not to mention the K-zars,
1:55.3	who after centuries of success abandoned the hard nomad lifestyle in favour of the easier ways of settled peoples.
2:04.9	Listenety asks why the Bulgarian peoples living in the Balkans chose not to become Roman.
2:17.7	It's an excellent question, and I think there are a number of ways of interpreting exactly what is being asked.
2:26.1	I'm assuming that Listenety is saying why did the tribes of Slavs who lived near Thessalonica or Greece or Constantinople not choose to become a part of their neighbours more sophisticated civilization?
2:44.1	Why would they stay on their rustic farms and not follow the lure of those gold coins which they saw merchants using at the market?
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