Episode #216- Did the Siege of Constantinople Even Happen? (Part I)

Our Fake History

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🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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When the capital of the Roman empire was moved from Rome to the city of Constantinople, the city on the Bosporus strait became one of the most important places on planet earth. One top being the heart of Roman religious, political, and cultural life for a millennium, the city had a reputation for being impregnable. From the 6th to the 13th century the city was besieged an amazing 19 times, and not once was it overcome by a foreign army. This resilience added to the city's legendary status. Two of the most significant sieges came at the hands of the Muslim Umayyad Caliphate, in 674 and 717. These battles have been cited as historical turning points, however recent scholarship has cast doubt on the traditional sources. How significant were these sieges? Did they both even occur? Tune-in and find out how sassy Voltaire, sloppy meta-narratives, and the end of the world all play a role in the story.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, Sebastian here. Just wanted to let you know that I will once again be participating in this year's Intelligent Speech Conference.
0:09.5	Deception, lies, fakery, fraudulence, and forgery is what they have on the docket for Intelligent Speech 2025.
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1:01.8	Okay. Okay, everyone, it's time to talk about the end of the world.
1:12.0	The end times, the great tribulation, the final coming apart of existence, the ultimate fate of humanity.
1:18.8	The end of the world has been a human concern for, well, really, since the beginning.
1:27.2	The idea that this existence, this version of the human experience is bound to end, appears in countless traditions found all over the world.
1:32.4	Now, of course, there are many cultures that don't go in for the idea of an inevitable destruction of the universe,
1:39.7	but we're not interested in them today. Today, we're talking apocalypse, the great unveiling.
1:49.1	Over the course of history and across cultures, there have been many ways that the end of the world has been imagined.
1:56.9	The pagan Norse had the concept of Ragnarok, a cataclysm brought on by the Gautardamaran,
2:04.5	a final destructive battle between the gods.
2:08.5	The prelude to this final catastrophe is an age of violence and discord on earth.
2:15.4	In the poetic Edda tradition, here translated by the scholar Ursula Dronke,
2:19.9	the dark time is described like this, quote, brothers will fight and kill each other. Sisters,
2:27.4	children will defile kinship. It is harsh in the world. Hordom, rife, an axe age, a sword age. Shields are riven, a wind age,
2:38.6	a wolf age. Before the world goes headlong, no man will have mercy on another. End quote.
2:47.4	Whoa. For all of you aspiring black metal bands out there, if the name, a wind age, a wolf age, is not taken, then you may want to make a mental note of that one.
3:00.7	Ragnarok comes to a climax when the chief god Odin is killed fighting against the monstrous world-consuming wolf known as
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