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No; large empires generally collapse from within. But Constantinople was by no means an empire when the Ottomans took it. By that point it had shrunk to a me
by pg 18y ago
No; large empires generally collapse from within.
But Constantinople was by no means an empire when the Ottomans took it. By that point it had shrunk to a
mere town.
- mattmaroon 18y agoYeah, I guess I was thinking more "civilizations" than "empires".