{"id":52092,"date":"2020-01-13T02:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=52092"},"modified":"2020-01-12T09:19:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T14:19:05","slug":"deadly-moments-in-history-the-nika-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/01\/13\/deadly-moments-in-history-the-nika-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Moments in History &#8211; The <em>Nika<\/em> Riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dm9mscL2qHU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Invicta<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 27 Feb 2018<\/p>\n<p>We relive the deadly Nika Riots which brought the Emperor Justinian to his knees and resulted in the death of 30,000 civilians. In our journey we will explore the history of chariot racing, the undercurrents of dissent, and the blow by blow unfolding of the riot.<\/p>\n<p>Support future documentaries: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/InvictaHistory\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/InvictaHistory<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InvictaHistory\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/InvictaHistory<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Documentary Credits:<br \/>\nResearch: Invicta and Luas McCahill<br \/>\nScript: Invicta<br \/>\nArtwork: Robbie McSweeney<br \/>\nEditing: Invicta<br \/>\nMusic: Total War Soundtrack, Dreamnote, Recognition<\/p>\n<p>Literary Sources<br \/>\n&#8211;<em>History of the Wars, I<\/em> by Procopius<br \/>\n&#8211;<em>Empress Theodora<\/em> by J. A. S. Evans<br \/>\n&#8211;<em>Justinian: The Last Roman Emperor<\/em> by G. P. Baker<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-13-Deadly-Moments-in-History-\u2013-The-Nika-Riots.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-13-Deadly-Moments-in-History-\u2013-The-Nika-Riots-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-54176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-13-Deadly-Moments-in-History-\u2013-The-Nika-Riots-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-13-Deadly-Moments-in-History-\u2013-The-Nika-Riots-853x480.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-13-Deadly-Moments-in-History-\u2013-The-Nika-Riots-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-13-Deadly-Moments-in-History-\u2013-The-Nika-Riots-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-13-Deadly-Moments-in-History-\u2013-The-Nika-Riots.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invicta Published 27 Feb 2018 We relive the deadly Nika Riots which brought the Emperor Justinian to his knees and resulted in the death of 30,000 civilians. In our journey we will explore the history of chariot racing, the undercurrents of dissent, and the blow by blow unfolding of the riot. Support future documentaries: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/InvictaHistory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,370,5,11],"tags":[858,360,1196,1312,742],"class_list":["post-52092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-middle-east","category-military","category-religion","tag-byzantium","tag-christianity","tag-constantinople","tag-justinianandtheodora","tag-rioting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dyc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54177,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52092\/revisions\/54177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}