Explain the appeal behind the Byzantines

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>Explain the appeal behind the Romans.
Fixed that for you. And still better than turkroaches.

wow, such a deep analysis *farts*

>Nation that fights to the last and dies
Same reason people suck off Nazi Germany

I mean, come on! Byzzies were really cool...
>GREEK FIRE, BITCHES!

They started the Crusades, were the last remnants of the Roman Empire, were constantly fucked over by the Latins, and fought the turks til the last man. The Germans think they did all of this too which is why they're so interested in it.

I'm a Romanboo, byzabooism is litteraly a section of Romanbooism.

It's literally all you need to know. Close to absolutely nothing was gained during the centuries of Ottoman rule, compare that to all that was lost and wiped clean off the earth.

It combines the appeal of the imperial roman hegemony with a culture centered around greek institutions and hermeneutics. it's cool

>Byzantine
>Roman
kill yourself

I didn't say it was roman, but it's obviously heir apparent to many of the institutions and structures governing the roman empire

The Empire had an uncanny ability of recovering from the brink of destruction, they did it like four fucking times and lasted for almost a millenium.

This. Once you study Late Antiquity it all falls into place and you start seeing the similarities between the Empire of the 5th century and the Empire of the 10th century.

Everyone were basically living in mudhuts and being ruled by the whims of local warlords when the Byzantines had the most centralized state and advanced bureaucracy to date. Most advancements came from there. The Hagia Sophia is not the most impressive-looking building today but remember it was built in 500 AD(!). St Peters was built in 1500 AD.

We forget that Catholicism as we know it reached its grandiosity and its symbols of achievements centuries later when the Byzantines were about to be removed. So we often look back thinking Catholicism looked like we know it in the early middle ages and compare it to the Byzantines - it didn't. Compare Byzantine church music to Catholic. The Byzantine chants appear primitive and understated compared to today's Catholic music but remember that Catholic music was made by composers of the Renaissance and after, whereas the Byzantines were made much earlier. The Catholic equivalent would be Gregorian chants, which are basically imitations of Byzantine church music.

People who want to like the Roman Empire but are hipsters

They also a few periods of expansion, under justinian and then again in the last few deacdes of the millenium.

Progress is bad?

They have a cool name with a Z in it. See also: Aztecs

The shield of the West, if not for thier fatal tendency to infight they could have stood for another 500 years or more.

Explain precisely why it wasn't Roman

The Varangian Guard was a cool unit in MTW.

WE WUZ is a tradition, and byzantines got into that game p. early with the whole "roman" thing.

Greek fire?

>The shield of the West

*teleports behind you