In the early seventh century, a generation-long war exhausted and virtually destroyed the Roman Empire.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:50 Rome vs. Persia
2:55 Babbel
4:07 Enter Khosrow II
5:37 The Persian attack
6:44 Persia triumphant
7:55 The (Roman) Empire strikes back
8:50 The siege of Constantinople
10:11 The battle of Nineveh
11:04 Roman victory
12:16 The collapse of the ancient world
13:10 Back to Mren Cathedral