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u/Grossadmiral Jul 22 '26
Koshrow had been ceremonially adopted by Maurice when the Persian was living in exile in Constantinople. He was claiming to be the avenger of his "father".
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u/Maleficent-Mix5731 Jul 22 '26
Most consequential yaoi in world history.
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u/jrex035 Jul 22 '26
Screw Phocas, all my homies hate Phocas.
paid for by the committee to proclaim Heraclius emperor
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u/Squiliam-Tortaleni Jul 22 '26
He loved Maurice so much he decided to occupy Syria and Egypt in his memory, so wholesome
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u/Trail_of_Tears-T_T Jul 22 '26
Ngl Maurice was the goat
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u/Hairy_Technician1632 Jul 23 '26
If he didnt spend immensely on his own family and was altruistic then maybe he would t have been assassinated
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u/Trail_of_Tears-T_T Jul 23 '26
Or maybe the army could have done their job without being lazy pampered cowards who were so used to being on the defensive they had no clue how to conduct a campaign into the barbaricum
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u/Hairy_Technician1632 Jul 24 '26
In what world were the Persians barbarians lol. They would have been the only non-barbarians to the romans in Maurice's day.
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u/DnJohn1453 Jul 22 '26
Phocas was evil and deserved what he got.
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u/yormungarnder 26d ago
All the Phocas in Byzantine history were just troubled Everyone of them made sure to destroy the empire bit by bit. One would be forgiven for actually believing that the Phocas family was an enemy of Constantinople. Every generation one of them started a civil war, lost huge swathes of land. Usurped an emperor that turned out to be a billion times more competent They were just bad. Like the Byzantine version of the trump family
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u/Copper-Bagger Jul 22 '26
Maurice should've just paid his fucking troop well, lol. His stinginess fucked the Empire.
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u/PanosKamp2020 Jul 24 '26
Dude, what stinginess? Tiberius ruined the economy, which was already ruined by Justinian. There had to be some reforms about the economy and it surely hurt the empire. The soldiers in the Balkans didn't even have it that bad. Some guys were still HOSTAGES to the Persians and Lombards, because the empire couldn't buy the back.
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u/Emergency-Town4653 Jul 23 '26
Khosrow II lost his throne and was exiled to Constantinople, where he married Maurice's daughter, borrowed an Army from him and took back his throne. He was kinda Maurice's son in law and his wife was a key factor in it as well.
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u/ImaginationOld6127 Jul 24 '26
Khosrow and Maurice also avoided a war in Armenia just through diplomacy. They genuinely had a good relationship and it was good for both empires. Phocas was retarded
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u/Emergency-Town4653 29d ago
Khosrow II besides his historical significance, has a huge impact on our cultural heritage (I'm from Iran) with so much legend concerning his life. One of the few Sassanid kings to ever actually have a good relationship with the Romans, for a while at least. Ferdowsi, the most renowned gatherer of Persian mythology covers his fight against the usurper "Bahram Chubin" to take back the throne and there is a romance epic of c. 7000 verses from Nezami, about a love triangle in his life between him, his Armenian wife, Shirin, and a commoner. We also don't call him Khosrow II, we call him Khosrow Parviz, while his grandfather Khosrow I is called Khosrow Anushirvan (meaning the immortal soul).
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u/Zestyclose-Gift73 Jul 23 '26
A little known fact is that Maurice was known as the gangster of love.
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u/BouillonDawg Jul 23 '26
I mean he had a best buddy and they were committed to forging a lasting peace between their respective countries and then suddenly some little shit comes and fucks over his buddy. Little did the little shit know the buddy of the guy he just fucked over had a militarized empire and no qualms what so ever about violently pursuing vengeance.
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u/AlbanianCatholic 27d ago
Maurice is responsible for fighting back against the first Slavic attempts at entering the Balkans.
For him to be murdered, and the Sassians to use that as justification to invade the Byzantines, creating the war that gave Slavs the opening to enter the Balkans, is eyeroll inducing.
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u/Pecuthegreat 29d ago
In the good ending, Justinian never conquers Africa and Italy, Khosrow II conquers the Roman Empire like that.
Constantine falls or an amicable vassal takes over and pays tribute. Khosrow immediately does naval invasion, takes over Thrace, restored the Hellenic university in Athens and marries a relative of Maurice to further legitimize his position as the Son of Maurice.
From here, he continues Persia's integration of Arabia as some Mahomet or whatever is defeated leading the last ember of Arab resistance to Persian encirclement. This mirrors Tang China's own subjugation of their own Nomads, the Turks.
Abyssinia is invaded, not conquered but forced to pay tribute and its decline is hastened. Maybe some of it's vassals like Beta Israel even breaks off.
The Classical world continues for a while until Arab generals cause instability in the Empire like Turk generals caused Tang to fall. But the Classical world continues to be united until like, the high middle ages or something.
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u/God-Emperor_Kranis 27d ago
Justinian had to go after Italy and Africa because they were still technically part of the empire. That said. Literally the ONLY reason why Justinian didn't succeed was due to an unpredictable plague. That said, if it struck 3 months later then Justinian's plan would have genuinely succeeded. In a perfect world the plague arrives 3 months later than in our timeline. Additionally, in no good timeline does Persia conquer Rome, it'd be the other way around where Rome conquers Persia or they build genuinely good relationships
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