The Siege Of Constantinople
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...a watershed for both Christian and Muslim historians. With its fall, the Middle Ages are generally considered to have ended, and the Italian Renaissance can be said to have begun at that point. Its significance to the West and Christendom is that it marks the final end that was the glory of Rome and the assurance of Christian/European superiority. For Muslims, and for Turks in particular, it was a victory still celebrated, for though the city’s population had dwindled significantly from its heyday and its wealth was largely drained away, it remained a symbol of Christian/Western dominance, and its symbolic value was not lost either on Sultan Mohammed II or on the Muslim world in general. The conquest was also the springboard toward respect for the Turks, and for an empire that would last well into the 20th century.
Ottoman Sultan Mohammed II (or Mohamed, or Mehmet, or Mehmed, or Memet; it really does not matter because he did not spell his name any of those ways; in this paper...
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