The fall of the city would have huge global implications. Constantinople had fallen and all that was left was, I'm not going to say rubble, but it was now a shadow of what it had been. Mehmed then goes and he rounds up the majority of the leftover survivors and any of the city's nobility that was there,. He then had executed. No one is going to challenge his authority or rule there.
The fall of Constantinople, also known as the conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire. The city was captured on 29 May 1453 as part of the culmination of a 53-day siege which had begun on 6 April.
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