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Emperor Constantine rebuilt the city and named it after himself.. Constantinople. This accomplishment was going to be the future of trade.
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The Byzantine people destroyed the palace and burned property. The fires of the people ended up burning down much of the city. The people rioting were eventually murdered(planned) by Justinian
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Justinian the emperor rebuilt this church that had been left in pieces from when the nika revolts. The church was extraordinary because of the arching dome that the church featured.
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He was the leading military figure in the age of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I. As one of the last important figures in the Roman military tradition, he led imperial armies against the Sasanian empire (Persia), the Vandal kingdom of North Africa, the Ostrogothic regime of Italy, and the barbarian tribes closing in upon Constantinople.
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He gathered an army of 30,000 men to take to the city of Sofia, where he won the battle. But during the battle he lost men and suffered defeats and loses.. He conquered little pieces of countries at a time
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The ottoman turks converted to Islamic. They continued into Asia Minor to take land. This disturbed the Christians trying to reach the holy land that god had promised.
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The Christian church split into two separate divisions; the Roman catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Eastern church denied that the Pope had supremacy.
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On November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II makes perhaps the most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land, with a cry of “Deus vult!” or “God wills it!”
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Western European armed expedition called by Pope Innocent lll originally intended to conquer Muslim, controlled Jerusalem by means of invasion through Egypt.
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The siege of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire and one of the most heavily fortified cities in the world, took place in 1453. They used huge cannon to destroy the walls, warships were used to the cut the city's sea defense. They also used an extensive infantry to engulf the city.
