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The Fall of Constantinople 1453: How One City's End Reshaped the World
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For over a thousand years, Constantinople stood as the eastern continuation of Rome — the world's largest and most sophisticated city for much of the medieval period. When Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II breached the Theodosian Walls on May 29, 1453, it was not just the fall of a city but the end of a civilization. The immediate consequences were local: the final extinction of the Roman Empire, the Ottoman consolidation of southeastern Europe. The longer consequences were global: Byzantine scholars fleeing westward brought Greek manuscripts to Italy, accelerating the Renaissance. The Ottoman control of eastern trade routes increased the economic pressure on Western Europe to find sea routes to Asia — a pressure that led directly to Columbus's 1492 voyage.
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