The Rise and Fall of The Byzantine Empire
Founding of Constantinople on site of older Byzantium
Fall of Western Roman Empire, Survival of Eastern Empire (Byzantine)
Christianity later divides between Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox
A rich and cosmopolitan city
Plague
Venetian Conquest
Decline
Fall in 1453 to Islam
Envoi: In a Cornish country church
The final lecture in the present series asks this profound, and to some, unanswerable question Introduction a. 7 December 1941. Why? b. A...
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The situation in 1945: Recap Events in Palestine and New York Last Days of The British Mandate 1947/48 1948: Israeli independence...
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