What went wrong?

>>71365
Fighting on two fronts.

Having a meme emperor.

>>71365
0 allies, low man power, decadence etc..
being a 1000 year old empire in the pretty much modern age does that.

>>71365
Plague.

>>71365
should have focused on beating the persians before fighting the persians, the anarchy shithole that was western europe, and the fucking slavs at the same time.
They didn't have the same wealth as old rome to support new infrastructure in western europe.

>>71365
Kebab

>>71365
doesn't help they were fucking with their northern neighbors, they also fucked with the majority of Christianity which were Catholics.

>>71446
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Latins
they isolated themselves.

T*rks

>>71365

Conquest of Africa went swift.
Then he thought that renconquer Gothic lands could be as easy.
It was not. Everything went downhill.

>>71365
You didn't check the catalog.

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>>71429
>decadence

>>71557
Yes decadence, people didn't want to work, they didn't want to fight, they only cared about pleasure.

>>71532
Filthy Gr*ek detected

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>>71587
Jesus Christ you really believe that? I thought this was a running gag. This whole idea was literally debunked over a century ago.

>>71365
Plague and stretched to thin. The Avars where pressing on the main front, not worth fighting to keep the western territories.

That's nobody's business but the turks'.

Justinian. Justinian went wrong.

Like an idiot he tried to resuscitate the ancient Roman Empire by conquering Italy, not understanding that it belonged to a dead civilisation and that he should have turned East instead.

This is why the East turned to Islam and Byzantium got rekt.