conquer Constantinople in 1453, the Middle East, North Africa, and Eastern Europe, they also take control of, and disrupt, the major trade routes. Looking for ways to circumvent the Turks and Arabs, Europeans take to the seas to find new lands on which to grow their own sugar. 1500: Ped...
In 1453, the Turks seized Constantinople which had been the center of Mediterranean civilization for a thousand years. Even before Constantinople fell to the hands of the Turks, many of its Greek teachers fled with their libraries to Italy and taught in Italian universities. Thus, in the late ...
Since the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453, the Moscow Patriarchy has been looked upon by the Greek church as their new religious headquarters. Patriarch Alexy II (1929 – 2008). Patriarch Alexy II was the Pope of the Greek church, and his position was equivalent to that of ...
a climate that isn’t ideal for growing cane, and depleted soil and deforestation. Importing sugar is easier than growing and producing it. When the Ottoman Turks conquer Constantinople in 1453, the Middle East, North Africa, and Eastern Europe, they also take control of, and disrupt, the ma...
Rome started to greatly decline in power around 330 AD when Constantine made Constantinople the new capital of Rome. In 410 AD, the Visigoths successfully destroyed much of Rome. The empire formally ended in 476 AD with the abdication of the last emperor Romulus Augustus to the Germanic chief...
Year built:1453 From the date of its construction in 537 AD, and until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted by the Fourth Crusaders to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Lat...