Fall of Constantinople

[Byzantine Prince]

I don't get you Wizard, why is it you put in so much superflous information? It makes every post you make seam arrogant, as if we don't know any of that stuff, which I'm sure I for one do. Not to mention you make mistakes.

Here's one:

You are not speaking Turkish, are you? It's a world away from the Romans, who turned everybody into speakers of Latin.

Serbians are a Slavic group of the Balkans which means they came in about the 5th century when the Empire was not speaking latin anymore nor could it enforce everyone to speak Greek, which became the official language the Eastern Empire. Albanians were under Rome since 168 BC and yet they retained their langauge for the most part.

With no trade, and no efficient agriculture supporting surpluses for trade, Constantinople emptied out until in 1453 there were only ten to twenty thousand people living there.

The reason they were 10,000 left was because the Turks had been besieging the area for decades on end. The trade was minimal and the food that come in was minimal so the people would leave for fear of starvation. Don't blame this on anyone but Turks.