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After the fourth crusade, Byzantine was weakened and had lost lots of its land. But now they were facing a new threat, the Ottoman Turks. In 1453, Byzantine finally fell to the Ottoman Turks, led by Mehmet II.
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During the Fourth Crusade, crusaders were diverted from fighting Muslims to fighting other Christians. After defeating their Byzantine trade rivals in 1204, crusaders captured and looted Constantinople, the Byzantine capital.
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Emperor Alexios I contacts Pope Urban II for help in fighting the Muslim Turks, even though they were rivals, the Pope agreed to help Emperor Alexios.
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The Schism began because of many different political, cultural, and theological factors that led to disagreement between eastern and western Mediterranean Christians.
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In 986, Emperor Basil II took 30,000 men, marched to Bulgaria, and took Bulgaria by force. But on the way back to Byzantine he was ambushed. In 1000, he lead another invasion onto Bulgaria.
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In 634, the Syria Providence was taken from Byzantine territory by the Arab-Muslims due to raids after the Ridda Wars.
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In 532 AD, riots and a devestating fire destroyed Constantinople. To make the city grand again, Justinian rebuilt the church Hagia Sophia. The Hagia Sophia is still standing today and was once used as a mosque.
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Belisarius’s first Military Expedition was against the Vandal Kingdom, because Justinian wanted to control the wealthiest provinences in Roman Empire.
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The Nika revolts were the most violent revolts in Constantinople history, which were led against Emperor Justinian. The revolts ended in where nearly half of Constantinople being either burned or destroyed.
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The Roman Empire moved it’s base to Byzantium because of German invaders from the west. Then Roman Emperor Constantine changed the name to Constinople
