True History - Veritas Card #23 - Fall of Constantinople to Mohammed II

Fall of Constantinople to Mohammed II - 1453

   During the late Middle Ages, there were two empires that were fighting for control of the same land. The Muslim Ottoman Empire was in competition with the Christian Byzantine Empire. Osman I was a Turk who founded the Muslim Ottoman Empire. Slowly, the Turks were gaining control of what had been the Byzantine Empire which was under the rule of Justinian.
   Mohammed II had made a final assault on Constantinople in 1453. Constantinople was the only remaining portion that was not under Muslim control. The Turks used gunpowder and cannons for their weaponry while the Byzantines were used to using bows and arrows. So the walls of Constantinople came down, as it was impossible for them to continue withstand the onslaught.
       The armies were not the same size either. Mohammed II had between 100,000 and 150,000 soldiers, which was much more than the number of Byzantine soldiers. It was at this point that the city of Constantinople fell to Turkish control, and all that was left of the Old Roman Empire was no longer in existence.