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The Guns of August: How a Continent Talked Itself Into Catastrophe
SPQR: How Rome Argued Itself Into Existence
Gutenberg and the Printing Revolution
The Fall of Constantinople
The Fall of Constantinople
Medieval · 4 min read
The 1453 siege ended the Roman imperial line that had endured for over a millennium and confirmed the Ottomans as the dominant power of the eastern Mediterranean. It marks a conventional dividing line between the medieval and early modern worlds.
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