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The Nika riots to place over only a week in Constantinople it was the most violent riot in the history of Constinople with nearly half of the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people dead
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For his efforts he was rewarded the power of a land and sea
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Was a Greek Orthodox Christian patriarchal basilica that later turned into an Ottoman mosque and is now a museum
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Islam won and historians claim it's because Sassanid and Byzantine were militarily and economically tired and exhausted.m
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After getting his position in Byzantium Basil II gathered at 30,000 man army went to the Bulgarian city of Sofia and attacked it. He worried about the lack of loyalty of his own and marched his army back towards Byzantine and was defeated
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A split within the Roman Catholic Church that lasted from 1378 to 1417
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Pope urban II makes the best speech of the middle ages giving rise to the crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to get back their holy land
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The fourth Crusade was the western European armed journey called by Pope Innicent III originally intended to win Muslim-control Jerusalem by means of trespassing in to Egypt
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Was the capturing of the capital Greco-Roman empire by an army off the Ottoman.