The Fall Of Constantinople 1453 Flashcards
City was founded in 312 by Roman emperor
Constantine the great
Byzantine empire
Old city of byzantium
Kommenian restoration
Is the term used to describe the military, financial, and territorial recovery of the byzantine empire
Empire received a mortal blow in 1204
Fourth crusade
Was an Islamic empire that lasted from 1299 to November 1 1922
The ottoman empire
Widely argued as the last large-scale crusader battle of the middle ages
The battle of nicopolis in 1396
Byzantine were temporarily relieved when ___ invaded Anatolia in the battle of Ankara in 1402
Tamerlane
Built fortress called rumelirisai
Saltan Mehmet 2
Rumelinisari
the fortress was able to prevent help from European Christian states. Russian and Ukrainian
Last byzantine emperor
Constantine xi
The ottomans elite forces they were originally European Christian children taken by force from their families
Janissaries
According to the traditions of the day
Mehmet 2 allowed his troops to plunder the city for three days
But Mehmet 2 stopped the raping looting and enslaving after only 24 hours
To prevent further structural damage to his new capital city
Results of the fall of Constantinople
- the ottoman empire, the conquest of Constantinople gave the ottoman turk the respect from Europe it has so long craved.
-the fall of Constantinople is the event that ended the middle ages and started the Renaissance
-fall of Constantinople closed the trade routes from the east. This forces the Christian west to seek and all water route to the orient - the wealth extracted from America by the Christian Europeans fuels the growth of Europe as the suoer power continent in the world from 1492-1945
Make the new capital…
Istanbul
