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How Did Byzantium Build The Silk Road Before The Ottomans

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The ottomans started very small and soon became large. Byzantium had control of the Silk Road until the ottomans got power. Constantinople (present day name Istanbul and previous name Byzantium) was a walled city and no one could get in. Well thanks to the silk road Byzantium had open arms to the ottos got their hands on cannons very early. (Earlier than any other European nation.) The destroyed the walled city within a couple of months and after that they made their Capital in Constantinople b/c of the walled part. Later they kept expanding and expanding to the point where that controlled 100% of the black sea and they bordered the HRE. After their height like any Hi people get they go and dip below hemostasis and started to fall. They lost

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