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I’ve often heard that by 1453 the fall of the Byzantine Empire was inevitable and even if they had repulsed the Turks the city would have just fallen later. At what point did the Empire go from a precarious but still viable state to one that was essentially doomed?

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How would opposing armies in a Roman or Byzantine civil war tell one another apart without accidentally killing their comrades?

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To what extent did the Byzantines understand they were cultural different from their ancient Roman counterparts?

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Why were the Arabs able to so easily defeat the Roman and Persian Empires, when those empires had for the most part been unable to decisively defeat one another?

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Why did the Jews not return to Israel earlier?

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How much did the Sassanids know about the Achaemenid Empire?

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Why was Anatolia Turkified rather than the steppe invaders “going native” and adopting the dominant culture as they did in many other similar situations?

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This map dipicts the Eastern Roman Empire controling a small portion of southern Italy in the year 500, is there any truth to this claim?

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Why were the Byzantines so much less successful at conquest than their ancient Roman forebears?

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Did Italy hold any special significance to the Byzantines?

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I’ve often heard that by 1453 the fall of the Byzantine Empire was inevitable and even if they had repulsed the Turks the city would have just fallen later. At what point did the Empire go from a precarious but still viable state to one that was essentially doomed?	28	AskHistorians
How would opposing armies in a Roman or Byzantine civil war tell one another apart without accidentally killing their comrades?	26	AskHistorians
To what extent did the Byzantines understand they were cultural different from their ancient Roman counterparts?	24	AskHistorians
Why were the Arabs able to so easily defeat the Roman and Persian Empires, when those empires had for the most part been unable to decisively defeat one another?	17	AskHistorians
Why did the Jews not return to Israel earlier?	16	AskHistorians
How much did the Sassanids know about the Achaemenid Empire?	15	AskHistorians
Why was Anatolia Turkified rather than the steppe invaders “going native” and adopting the dominant culture as they did in many other similar situations?	13	AskHistorians
This map dipicts the Eastern Roman Empire controling a small portion of southern Italy in the year 500, is there any truth to this claim?	13	AskHistorians
Why were the Byzantines so much less successful at conquest than their ancient Roman forebears?	13	AskHistorians
Did Italy hold any special significance to the Byzantines?	12	AskHistorians