Who was the best Byzantine Emperor, and why was it Basil II?
>>439191
A good emperor takes steps to make sure his empire will continue to flourish after his death, Basil only made sure it succeeded in his lifetime and left an heirless throne to his NEET brother and narcissistic nieces.
Alexios was a super emperor because he deliberately chose a superior heir in his son rather than leaving it to his elder daughter's husband. That son also took steps to make sure his wiser and less temperamental son took the throne.
Was Basil's reign the last hurrah for the Byzantines?
Seems like shit went downhill really quickly after he died
>>439191
>His last recorded words were: "The city is fallen and I am still alive."[26] Then he tore off his imperial ornaments so as to let nothing distinguish him from any other soldier and led his remaining soldiers into a last charge where he was killed.
>>439191
Byzantines introduced Kebab to Europe to fight of Serbs and other Slavs. Nothing good about those pieces of shit.
>>439933
Nice bait mate. The Serbs fought alongside the Kebab when they besieged Constantinopole.
>>439924
Based
>>439191
>stealing the image and question from octochan
God's I remember that thread from last year. It was glorious.
>>439191
Theodora because she was probably extremely attractive and capable of getting me hard with just a slip of exposed flesh.
>>440003
Serbs only fought against timurids for turks not against greeks
>>439933
You're thinking of the Genoese
It's Heraclius you faggots.
>Fought against Persians and even turned the war around to his favor
>Made Greek the Lingua Franca
>>439191
He was a meme and an actually capable ruler, scan ask for more
>Having crushed the Bulgarians, Basil exerted his vengeance by cruelty - he was said to have captured 15,000 prisoners and blinded 99 of every 100 men, leaving one one-eyed man in each cohort to lead the rest back to their ruler. Samuel was physically struck down by the dreadful apparition of his blinded army and died two days later, on 6 October 1014, after suffering a stroke. Although the mistreatment of the Bulgarian prisoners may have been exaggerated, this incident helped give rise to Basil's Greek epithet of Boulgaroktonos, meaning "the Bulgar-slayer", in later tradition.
Good thing you said
>best
And not
>greatest
Since 'greatness' in rulers is just measured by the size of their territorial blob.
Mind you, regardless of being a meme, Justinian still has a compelling character/historical narrative, he's just overrated.
>>440330
Serbs fought for the Turks against other Serbs, hajvane.
>>441813
Based
Me.
>>441806
If only he never lost North Africa and the Levant against the arabs then he would've been hailed as one of the greatest Roman rulers in history.
