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History of the Byzantines

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  • Period: 300 to 1500

    History of the Byzantines

  • 532

    General Belisarius Military Campaigns

    General Belisarius Military Campaigns
  • 1095

    Emperor Alexios I contacts Pope Urban II

    Emperor Alexios I contacts Pope Urban II
    The Turks threatened to invade Byzantine and take Constantinople so the Emperor Alexios I contacted Pope Urban II to help. Urban took this opportunity to Christian Europe as he fought to take back the "Holy Land"
  • 1202

    Fourth Crusade

    Fourth Crusade
    The Fourth Crusade had a new strategy for the purpose of winning back the city Jerusalem and that was to attack Egypt. Egypt was the base of Muslim power. That plan fell through so then the ended up going in a different direction. That was to the greatest Christian city called Constantinople, the capital of Byzantine.
  • 1453

    fall of Constantinople

    fall of Constantinople