Perhaps, although you could argue they were responsible for their own decline by failing to advance and sticking to largely inefficient methods of government and organisation. Stagnation = decline.
Not really. Even at it's worst, the Byzantine Empire was far safer, more stable and better governed than the illiterate Ottoman tribes who conquered them.
Byzantine Empire never had anything like a traditional system where a new ruler murdered all his (possibly close to 100) brothers from what was essentially a glorified brothel. Byzantine Empire didn't build it's shock-troops from enslaved children who later became a corrupt caste of soldiers who refused to fight and murdered any Monarch who tried to modernize the state in the slightest way.
Byzantines 'stagnated' because they were subject to constant raids, piracy, economic blockade, huge mass migrations (goths, huns, slavs, albanians, bulgars, arabs, seljuks, ottomans) and invasions and backstabbings (which is really what destroyed them in the end) from north, south west and east for 1000 years. It's amazing they survived so long and still managed to deeply stamp their identity over most over eastern europe and the largest country in the world. pretty impressive if you ask me.
Not really. Even at it's worst, the Byzantine Empire was far safer, more stable and better governed than the illiterate Ottoman tribes who conquered them.
Byzantine Empire never had anything like a traditional system where a new ruler murdered all his (possibly close to 100) brothers from what was essentially a glorified brothel. Byzantine Empire didn't build it's shock-troops from enslaved children who later became a corrupt caste of soldiers who refused to fight and murdered any Monarch who tried to modernize the state in the slightest way.
Byzantines 'stagnated' because they were subject to constant raids, piracy, economic blockade, huge mass migrations (goths, huns, slavs, albanians, bulgars, arabs, seljuks, ottomans) and invasions and backstabbings (which is really what destroyed them in the end) from north, south west and east for 1000 years. It's amazing they survived so long and still managed to deeply stamp their identity over most over eastern europe and the largest country in the world. pretty impressive if you ask me.
No, you're quite right. The Byzantines just regularly sent major armies into battle under the command of generals who hated each other, gave the reserves to command of generals who hated the emperor, and invited a crusading army to conquer their own capital thanks to internal politics. Not to mention disbanding most of their own armies and relying on mercenaries because they couldn't trust their own armies not to fight civil wars every few decades.
They did well to survive so long, but as you say that was largely down to the internal divisions and tensions of pretty much every enemy they had. Considering that "Byzantine Empire was far safer, more stable and better governed than the illiterate Ottoman tribes who conquered them", you have to wonder how they allowed themselves to be conquered so meekly in the first place.
Not really. Even at it's worst, the Byzantine Empire was far safer, more stable and better governed than the illiterate Ottoman tribes who conquered them.
Byzantine Empire never had anything like a traditional system where a new ruler murdered all his (possibly close to 100) brothers from what was essentially a glorified brothel. Byzantine Empire didn't build it's shock-troops from enslaved children who later became a corrupt caste of soldiers who refused to fight and murdered any Monarch who tried to modernize the state in the slightest way.
^ What do you think a Fascist name for Brazil would be? I have no idea.
Also, everyone if you have more screenshots from after 1800 CE please feel free to share them. It's impossible for me to test the DCNs for that time period by autoruns.
OK. I've come up with a list of Fascist names (for Latin American countries, mostly). Will update them all once I complete this list.
Argentina - Tacuara Nationalist Movement
Brazil - Integralist Brazil
Inca/Peru - Revolutionary Union of Peru
Colombia - Falangist Colombia
Mexico - National Synarchist Union of Mexico
Persia/Iran - National-Socialist Workers' Iran
Byzantium/Greece - Patriotic Alliance of Greece
Actually there is a Brazilian Fascist name in the current SVN version: United States of Brazil that's probably better.
Brazil now has 2 democratic names: Republic of the United States of Brazil and Federative Republic of Brazil. The transition is decided by the discovery of Mass Media.
Everyone, please test this version in the Industrial/Modern/Future eras (possibly with 1700 CE starts). I cannot easily test the names myself past 1800 CE.
I assume this was directed at me. In this case, I side with you, if only because I think in this case gameplay should trump flavor.
While it is true that Byzantines considered themselves they considered themselves to be Roman, the culture was significantly different, in ways that makes it pretty hard to say "Byzantines were Romans." Yes, they technically were, but I would call them Byzantines and end it at that, not to mention the aformentioned confusion in having two Roman Empires.
The suggestion might work if you made it conditionally so that the West must be dead, but otherwise Byzantine is perfectly fine.
I assume this was directed at me. In this case, I side with you, if only because I think in this case gameplay should trump flavor.
While it is true that Byzantines considered themselves they considered themselves to be Roman, the culture was significantly different, in ways that makes it pretty hard to say "Byzantines were Romans." Yes, they technically were, but I would call them Byzantines and end it at that, not to mention the aformentioned confusion in having two Roman Empires.
The suggestion might work if you made it conditionally so that the West must be dead, but otherwise Byzantine is perfectly fine.
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