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23. The First of the Ottomans

Empire

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The Crusades, You're Really Joking and You'll Pay Us What You Want

In 1203, they reach the walls of concertinople. The Venetians who are smart business people like our bankers here, they don't really let you write your money off if you can't pay. And so in 1204, they eventually break it in the city and they go, there's some version of ballistic used to be thought that they were properly ballistic, ransacked everything. There are stories of prostitutes dancing on the altar in Hagia, Sofia and the great cathedral. You know, clearly the great treasuries are absolutely ransacked. So gold relics and treasure all shipped back to Europe in some epic proportions,. And then a little bit awkward because we

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