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The location provided an ecvellent harbor as well as easy access to the Danude River region adn the Euphrates Frontier.
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The most violent riot in the history of Constantinople, with nearly half of the city being burned or destroyed. Tens of thousands of people killed.
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It's imense, arching dome improved on earlier Roman buildings. The interior glowed with colored marble and embroidered silk curains.
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Count Belisarius entered Rome with 5,000 troops as 4000 left. Part of Emperor Justinian's grand plan to recover the Western Provinces from their Barbarian Rulers.
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Arab combined together taking a part of Byzantine adn conquered the Persians.
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His long campaign against the Bulgarians included a couple of heavy defeats. Some historians say that when the Byzantine collapsed, Emperor Basil II should have received reconition. His nickname was "Bulgar-Slayer"
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Other countries provoked a schism, or split, between Eastern and Western Christianity, known as the Great Schism.
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Emperor Alexios I asked for help againts the Suljuks Turks. He gave Urban II a letter that included a list of deeds. Some of the deeds were true and some were not. His plan ended up backfiring and he didn't get the soldiars he wanted.
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Goal was to win back Jerusalem but actually conquered Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Emperor.
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Ottoman surrounded walls with canons. Byzantine defenders couldn't keep up and it lasted 2 months. "God forbid that I should live as an emperor without an empire."
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