Empire expanded far beyond its Arabian homeland, bringing Sasanid Persia and parts of the Byzantine Empire into its society. Muslim conquerors adapted Persian methods of government...
rest of Anatolia and conquered the Balkans. Notably during the reign of Mehmed II, the Byzantine Empire was defeated at Constantinople. Each leader of the Ottoman Empire was to...
dangerous. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 heralded the utter destruction of the old Byzantine Empire and the rise of the new regime of the Ottoman Turks. Straddling Asia...
the Muslim Ottoman Empire. Constantinople had been the capital of the Orthodox Christian Byzantine Empire for centuries, and it was an important center for trade between Europe...
Slavic state, Kievan Rus', arose in the 9th century and adopted Christianity from the Byzantine Empire in 988,[13] beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that...
was basically the end of the Roman Empire as the Eastern Empire transformed from Roman to Byzantine Empire. So the whole of the Roman Empire did not fall t simply underwent a...
of his empire was to be converted also. There were masses of baptism's performed by the Byzantine priests onto the Rus people. Churches started popping up all over the empire,...
amongst the most momentous decisions ever made by a European ruler. The fact that ten Byzantine emperors after him bore his name may be seen as a reminder of his importance and...
the Church made the Reformation all but inevitable. After the destruction of the Roman Empire, the Roman Catholic Church was the only institution that could impose social order...
skills to show musculature, poise, beauty and anatomically correct proportions. In Byzantine and Gothic art of the Middle Ages, the dominance of the church insisted on the...
of Europe, Germany has had a seminal impact on Continental history. From the Holy Roman Empire to Otto Von Bismarck's German Reich, Nazism and the rise and fall of the Berlin...