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Music get your podcasts. The The United States Hello everyone, Stucker You here, and welcome back to another episode of the History of Everything podcast.

My friends, thank you all here for joining me here today. This is a continuation of the previous

episode that we did, where we covered the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

And I told you all that what I wanted to do in order to tie this all together without it becoming a too long of a running series is that I wanted to do the fall of the West and the rise of the East.

As I'm sure you all remember in the last episode that we did, the last emperor of

the United Roman Empire when everything was still together would die in 395 AD. After that,

you would have two halves that would go in very different directions. If you go and look at a Mediterranean

map back in 400 AD, it's honestly hard to imagine that within 76

years of that point, the Western Roman Empire was going to vanish, while it was that the Eastern Roman Empire

would prosper, at least for a time. Its history is extremely complicated, and we can't say that

at any given point, it just was amazing all the time. It would depend upon the time

that we're talking about. And it does bring up the question then of why exactly this happened.

After all, in our previous episode, we covered the fall of the west and why that went down.

But before we tell the story of the rise of the east, we have to take a moment to explain

why it did not fall as well.

So first off, going from the very beginning, applying a little bit of background context,

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