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>>12722270
fuck the ottomans
the Byzantine empire was the most advanced empire on earth
people think the Roman empire collapsed 1000 years earlier but it continued to flourish with Constantinople as the capital
Byzantium was literally the Eastern Roman Empire, that's how it started
It was said they had a room in the palace full of functioning clockwork and machinery, and this was back in like, 800 AD, when the rest of Europe was packing mud huts and poking berries up their nose
but a bunch of mutt seljuk turks figured out how to build their crude orc cannons (fun fact, Minas Tirith in Lord of the Rings was inspired by Constantinople, and the orcs and Mordor represented the seljuk turks) and blew apart the high walls of Constantinople
a bunch of power hungry mongrels took over the greatest city on earth that day
the only reason the Ottoman empire had any power at all was because they inherited it from the Byzantines

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>>12722276
Byzantium may have been romans but they were not trojans and that's why they couldn't hold it together.

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Ottochuds stand up

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