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The Fall of Byzantium A. D. 992-1453

Early Christianity and Byzantium 6 B. C. - 1453 A. D.

THE LONG struggle between the churches of the East and the West was only one of the many serious problems that weakened the empire and led to its downfall. Trade was another of its problems. Much of goods imported from the eastern world was sold to the west through Byzantine markets. A ten percent tax was collected on an imports and exports as well as on all goods passing through the Bosporus. This was one of the empire’s most important ways of collecting taxes. However, this rich flow of tax money began to get smaller and smaller in the tenth …

Mesopotamia, Where Civilization Began 4000 B.C. – 1750 B.C.

Early Civilizations 400,000 B.C - 648 B. C.

Mesopotamia is where civilization began. By 4000 B. C., many different groups of people were working out their lives in a variety of ways. In a great arc from the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, across the Turkish plains and through the highlands of Iraq and Iran, groups of peoples had settled and were farming, tending animals, making pottery and building towns, markets and forts. In the deserts, mountains and steppes, nomadic tribesmen lived by herding animals and by hunting and raiding. In Mesopotamia as these populations grew, they began to compete for land, food and supplies. One of the …

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The Fall of Byzantium A. D. 992-1453

Mesopotamia, Where Civilization Began 4000 B.C. – 1750 B.C.