Victor Davis Hanson, Part II: The Contrarian Agrarian | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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The Fall of Constantinople
Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, lasted a thousand years longer than Rome did. Yet this jewel of the ancient world had only 50,000 inhabitants left when it fell in 1453. There were only 7,000 defenders on the walls to hold back a Turkish army of more than 150,000. The Eastern Mediterranean, which was the wealthiest dynamic part of the empire, stagnating and the Ottomans further stagnated. And then finally they became kind of like us in the sense that here we are with China nakedly now saying that they want to be the world hegemon.
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