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Constantinople Today |
Our last stop is an old capital of the Roman Empire. Today, it is now called Istanbul. Constantinople, previously known as Byzantium, was one of several capitals of the Roman Empire. The city became apart of the Roman Empire when it was declared capital by Constantine the Great I, the first Christian ruler of the Roman Empire. The city was surrounded by water on three sides which made it easy to protect the city and it was also greatly different from Rome because there was an absence of Roman and Greek gods. The city was influenced with Christianity. Constantinople began because of the constant attacks on the eastern side of the Roman Empire and because of the constant attacks trying to get into Rome. Constantine moved the capital from Rome to Constantinople, where they found much more safety, but Rome was much more vulnerable to attacks. Constantinople shows the fall of the Roman Empire because it proves that many people wanted to conquer the Romans and how much the Barbarians and the Ottomans affected the empire's decision of moving the capital and how unstable the cities were at the time.
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