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This 11 page paper discusses some of the factors that led to the fall of the city of Constantinople in 1453. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Ages, as well as the downfall of the Byzantine Empire and the rise of the Ottoman Turks. This paper examines the fall of the city, and argues that it was
a direct result of the policies and successes of the great Ottoman rulers in the past and a persistent, strong, and powerful contemporary leader, Mehmet II. Other factors that led
to the citys downfall included a strong Ottoman military, sound strategy, technology and a lack of aid from the Catholic Church. Discussion This topic is extremely broad and the events
appear to be well known to historians, and with this many sources the information tends to repeat. Because of that, well jump in and see what we can find out
from our various authors, then tie it all together. We begin with a brief book review. The book is entitled The great armies of antiquity by Richard A. Gabriel, and
what is interesting here is the fact that Gabriel traces the history of military technology up through the fall of Constantinople. According to him, during this period "ancient warfare assumed
truly modern proportions in terms of the size of the armies involved, the administrative mechanisms required to sustain them, the development of weapons, the frequency of occurrence, and the scope
of destruction achievable by military force" (Fronda, 2004, p. 619). This seems like a good starting place to consider why the Turks achieved such a tremendous victory; could they have
had superior weapons, advanced technology and so on? Historian Judith Herrin describes the battle in detail and gives us a look at the two men who are forever associated with
it, Constantine and Mehmet II. They were "both younger sons who had never expected to become rulers" (Herrin, 2003, p. 12). Mehmet II had two older brothers who died and
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