Would the byzantines have survived longer if they never asked

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By "longer" do you mean that they would smell their weakness and invade them themselves to make our job even easier while trying to rebuild the defenses and maintain order?

Then sure, friend.

>>1896694
They have themselves to blame for trusting Venetians.

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>>1896698
yes bos very fun mem that picture u post 200000 time gits me errytime mashallah yease

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>>1896694
Would the byzantines have survived longer if he hadn't squandered time and resources trying to revive a dead empire?

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Modern-day Byzantium territory.

Thoughts?

>>1898176
Probably without Bulgaria and at least parts of Macedon, but with majority, if not entirety, of Albania.

>>1898176
>>1898317
And it would be smaller on the East, due to those being parts of Armenia.

>>1898169
Possibly, considering the rise of Islam just a century later, but had arabic expansion not happened at that time, probably wouldn't have had such an impact

>>1896698

God why do the mods allow this roach to post in here?

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>>1898176

These are the historically continuous borders, that contained Greek speaking populations, excluding Albania.

>>1898080
Blame the Franks. Venice agreeing to the Crusade meant shutting down their economy for a year to build the ships and train the men to man them. Then nobody showed up and the French couldn't pay. Then that faggot Alexios comes and offers them a shitload of money to help him get his throne back except whoops turns out he didn't have that money.

Venice would've been destroyed otherwise and would be little more than a historical footnote.