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Flavius Belisarius was a general of the Byzantine Empire. He was instrumental to Emperor Justinian's project of reconquering most of the Mediterranean territory of the former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost less than a century previously. he lived from 505 to 565.
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Caused by a conflict over chariot racing, widespread rioting, property damage, and murder. The Nika riots, or Nika revolt, took place against Emperor Justinian I and took place over the course of a week in Constantinople in AD 532.
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The first began with the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. He established a new unified polity in the Arabian Peninsula which under the subsequent Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates saw a century of rapid expansion.The emergence of Muslim Arabs from Arabia in the 630's and resulted in the rapid loss of Byzantium's southern provinces (Syria and Egypt) to the Muslim Caliphate.
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Samuel proved to be a successful general inflicting a major defeat on the Byzantine army commanded by Basil II at the Gates of Trajan and retaking north-eastern Bulgaria. In 997 Samuel was proclaimed Emperor of Bulgaria after the death of the legitimate ruler, Roman.
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The most influential speech of the Middle Ages, giving rise to the Crusades by calling all Christians in Europe to war against the Muslims in order to reclaim the "Holy Land", with a cry of “God wills it!”
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The Fourth Crusade was a Western European expedition called by Pope Innocent III, originally intended to reconquer Jerusalem Muslim controlled it, which means a invasion thought Egypt. On June 23, 1203 the main crusader fleet reached Constantipinople
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Great Schism was a division/conflict in the Roman Catholic Church from 1378 to 1417, when there were rival popes at Avignon and Rome. Another schism called "Schism of the West" was of the separation of the Eastern Church from the Western Church, traditionally dated 1054 and was also called Schism of the East.
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The capture of Constantinople marked the end of the Byzantine Empire, a continuation of the Roman Empire dating to 27 BC, an imperial state lasting for nearly 1,500 years. The conquest of the city of Constantinople and the end of the Byzantine Empire was a key event in the Late Middle Ages which also marks, for some historians, the end of the Middle Ages. After the conquest, Sultan Mehmed II transferred the capital of the Ottoman Empire from Edirne to Constantinople.
