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re: Was the end of the Roman Republic and start of the Empire good bad for them?
Posted on 11/18/16 at 11:35 pm to kingbob
Posted on 11/18/16 at 11:35 pm to kingbob
Wasn't it the Byzantines and their last Emperor who kind of had an almost stereotypical "one last stand" as the Ottomans or Arabs or whoever stormed and finally took their final stronghold?
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Posted on 11/18/16 at 11:37 pm to Methuselah
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Wasn't it the Byzantines and their last Emperor who kind of had an almost stereotypical "one last stand" as the Ottomans or Arabs or whoever stormed and finally took their final stronghold?
Yep. He was done in by the invention of the Cannon. The walls of Constantinople were nearly impregnable to any kind of siege weaponry until the Turks brought gun powder.
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