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Constantinople
Constantinople was in ancient times the Rome Empire’s capital between 330-395, and then from the mid fifth century to the 13th, it served the Byzantine Empire. It was not only the largest city In Europe but also the wealthiest. It was a place with relative peace and enhanced steady growth in trading terms due to its perfect position. Constantinople developed into a busy port due to its geographical position just between Asia and Europe, and it had a natural harbor. The lucrative city had also become the Rome Emperor’s Constantine’s known as New Rome, a city of Christians with magnificent architecture and immersive wealth.
The fall of the wealthy city Constantinople severely paralyzed trades in European regions. This fall is remembered and marked as the stepping steps that changed the Black and Mediterranean Seas into Turkish waters of trade. The Ottoman’s rules establishment a monopoly in trade. The Conquest that led to its fall greatly impacted the lucrative Italian trades, which had to halt. Europe was greatly affected by this fall as the trade routes by the eastern side, which came through the Byzantine Empire was now in the cruel control of Ottoman Turks, which created the power vacuum in Europe which prompted other empires to declare themselves universal ruling empires over the once European trade marker Constantinople.
Constantinople had been a center of culture, and informative education in Europe made it get names like “Basileuousa,” which meant ‘Queen of the city’ and had made Europe a great place for business and education. Its fall caused the wealthy Italian investors to turn their back and move to peaceful fertile areas.
Works Cited
Wickham, Chris. Medieval Europe. Yale University Press, 2016.
Stumpf, Jonathan Alan. “On the mutilation and blinding of Byzantine emperors from the reign of Heraclius I until the fall of Constantinople.” Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology 4.3 (2017).