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Belisarius led imperial armies against the Sassanian empire, the vandal kingdom of North Africa, the ostrogothic regime of Italy, and the barbarian tribes encroaching upon Constantinople.
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Costed the lives of 30,000 citizens. The inhabitants of Constantinople were divided into 4 different factions. These factions were put into the hippodrome where they used race horses and chariots. They were separated by color, green, blue, red, and white. Some chose to not follow the ruls and ended up killing.
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Built at Constantinople under the direction of the Byzantine emperor Justinian. One of the worlds greatest monuments
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The Muslim community spread through the Middle East through conquest, and the resulting growth of th Muslim state provided the group in which the recently revealed faith could take root and flourish
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He became known as the bulged-slayer for his exploits in conquering ancient Bulgaria, sweet revenge for his infamous defeat at Trojans gate.
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Event that precipitated the final separation between the eastern Christian churches and the western church
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Alexios, the Byzantine emperor, sent to pope, urban 2, and asked for aid from the west against the seljuq Turks, who taken nearly all of Asia Minor from him. At the council of clermont, urban addressed a great crowd and urged all to go to the aid of the Greeks and to recover Palestine from the rule of the muslims.
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It was originally intended to conquer Muslim-controlled Jerusalem by means of invasion through Egypt. Instead of the crusaders of Western Europe invaded and sacked the Christian city of Constantinople, capital of the eastern empire.
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After 10 centuries of wars, defeats, and victories, the bayzantine empire came to an end when canstantpole fell to the ottoman Turks in may 1453. The cities fall sent chock waves throughout Christendom. It is widely quoted as the event that marked the end of the European Middle Ages.
