Western Civilization I / Unit 9 WC1 0817 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Seljuks, Manzikert, 1204, 1453: The Long Decline
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The idea
The Seljuk Turks pressed into Anatolia from about one thousand and beat the emperor at Manzikert in ten seventy-one, a witness name. The Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople in twelve oh four. The Ottomans took the city in fourteen fifty-three.
In practice
The anchor omits Manzikert and dates the sack eleven ninety-nine.
Where people slip
The last vestige of Rome, the anchor calls fourteen fifty-three.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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