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Constantine realized he needed another base of operations and to be closer to Mediterranean to control empire.trades routes to Europe to Asia and liked the area
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Was the most violent riot in Constantinople history and the reason of how it started is two men were to be hung because of disturbance
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Belisarius was a general under Justinian started as his bodyguard. With only 18,000 troops he ordered to destroy the empire of North Africa
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Is the biggest building constructed by the east Roman Empire that has been bulidt three times and Justinian ordered the best architectural designers to help and was yet burned down because of an disagreement between the emperor an empress.
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Arab armies conquer Syria Iraq from Persians and worthy of 10 years of Muhammad's death, subclued Persia itself . The battle of yarmuk is because of the collapse of Byzantine military patron, over 6 days Arab army anhailed the Byzantine army
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"Basil the Baylor slayer" lived like a spartan and liked to be in battles and was defeated during his 1st battle and employed guerilla tactics versus the balyars and always stayed on battle field he allowed all 14,000 prisoners return to Bulgaria. Of these 14,000 men, all were blinded except for, 1 out of 100. Basil allowed groups of 100 to go back at a time, led by the one-eyed warrior. The site of his devastated army was too much for King Samual of the Bulgars. .
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Spilt between Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches, Christian church followed political and geographical lives. The spilt led to the formation of Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches
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Turks threatened to invade the Byzantine empire and take Constantinople and alexios made a plea to pope urban for help wasn't the 1st Appeal but was important to urban .
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A western armed expedition that originally intended to conquer Muslim controlled jeralism by means of an invasion through Egypt instead a sequence of events culminated in the crusaders sacking the city of Constantinople and the whole cause of this was because of transport
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Mehmed began making preparations to reduce the Byzantine capital of Constantinople . The city eroded after the city capture in 1204 during the fourth crusade . To help Constantine help defend Constantinople he asked for aid from pope Nicholas IV but the aid never came