by what yeah did the great plague reach Constantinople?
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The Massacre of the Muslims in the Spain and the Palestine lead to the great plague and epidemic and Black Deaths in Europe and constantinople
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http://www.themiddleages.net/plague.html\n\nhttp://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm\n\nhttp://www.mcn.org/ed/cur/cw/Plague/Plague_Sim.html\n\nThe last one is a game that you can set up as an experiment.  I did it and it was really surprising the \nresults.\n\n<edit>\nAnd wow me - he wanted websites not someone to do his homework for him.\n\n<edit>\nYou may already know this but this is just a fun and depressing tidbit.  Remember the song Ring around the Rosey?  That song is about the plague\n\nRing around the Rosey\n(This refered the the dark sores with red blothcy rings around them developed in the early stages of the plague)\nPocket full of posey\n(As the plague progressed those sores would burst and ooze out a putrid smelling puss.  People would put posey flowers in their pockets and undergarments to mask the smell)\nAshes, Ashes\n(The only way to dispose of the bodies fallen from plague was to burn them, otherwise they could still infect others post-mortem)\nWe all fall down\n(This is kind of contested.  As the plague spread it was thought that the final stages consisted of epileptic seizures thus causing many people to fall down randomly.  It has also been referred to as the death of so many, we all fall down.)
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The Bosporus or Bosphorus, also known as the Istanbul Strait, (Turkish: Boğaziçi, İstanbul Boğazı or just Boğaz) (Greek: Βόσπορος) is a strait that forms the boundary between the European part (Rumelia) of Turkey and its Asian part (Anatolia). The world's narrowest strait used for international navigation, it connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara (which is connected by the Dardanelles to the Aegean Sea, and thereby to the Mediterranean Sea).\n\nAnd That's My Best Answer, right?
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Constantinople was the capital of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.\n\nI believe Aachen, in modern Germany, was the capital of the Holy Roman Empire.
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goes bk to when the plegue went round they say saying bless you because sneezing was a sign of the plague learning history at school did pay off ;)
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The armies of the Goths defeated the western Roman empire. The Ottoman Turks defeated the Byzantine empire. The Mongols defeated the Chinese empire.
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Plague is known in the microbiology world as Yersnia pseudotubercuolsis sp. pestis (or simply Y. pestis), and is a bacterial disease that is characterized by painful lesions of the lymph nodes (buboes - hence Bubonic plague) and if advanced as a a septicemic plague to which there may be pneumonia as well.  While it is an ancient disease, it still exists today and is endemic in the Southwestern United States.  Most humans get it from either direct contact of infected rodents or from fleas that bite infected hosts.
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Around 430 - 426 B.C., a devastating plague, which some believe to have been typhoid fever, killed one third of the population of Athens, including their leader Pericles. The balance of power shifted from Athens to Sparta, ending the Golden Age of Pericles that had marked Athenian dominance in the ancient world. Ancient historian Thucydides also contracted the disease, but he survived to write about the plague. His writings are the primary source on this outbreak. The cause of the plague has long been disputed, with modern academics and medical scientists considering epidemic typhus the most likely cause. However, a study in 2006 by Manolis Papagrigorakis of the University of Athens detected DNA sequences similar to those of the bacterium responsible for typhoid fever.[5] Other scientists have disputed the findings, citing serious methodologic flaws in the dental pulp-derived DNA study. In addition, as the disease is most commonly transmitted through poor hygiene habits and public sanitation conditions, it is an unlikely cause of a widespread plague, emerging in Africa and moving into the Greek city states, as reported by Thucydides.\n\nIn 1860-1900, typhoid fever mortality rate in Chicago averaged 65 per 100,000 people a year. The worst year was 1891, when the typhoid death rate was 174 per 100,000 persons.[2]\n\nIn 1897, Edward Almwroth Wright developed the effective vaccine.
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The Black Death was a devastating pandemic that first struck Europe in the mid-14th century (1347–50), killing about a third of Europe's population, an estimated 34 million people. A series of contemporaneous plague epidemics also occurred across large portions of Asia and the Middle East, indicating that the European outbreak was actually part of a multiregional pandemic. The same disease is thought to have returned to Europe every generation with varying degrees of intensity and fatality until the 1700s.\n\nThe most popular version was that it was spread by fleas on rats to humans although this is not universally accepted. It is believed that better sanitation eventually led to the plague no longer returning. No cure was ever found.
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its location as a port connecting the black sea and the Mediterrianian. It could control trade from east to west.
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The Greeks called Constantinople POLI,since it means CITY\n Even today if you ask a Greek who is going to visit Istanbul where are you going? he will tell you IS TIN POLIN.That means I am going to the CITY.So I think this is the reason it is now called Istanbul
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Siege artillery (a first) to breach the walls of the city.\nForts on either side of the Bosphorus that had the necessary firepower to stop ships trying to bring help from the Black Sea.\nCarrying overland some vessels into the Golden Horn that had been closed off with a massive chain by the Byzantines.
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During a civil war in 1348, Emperor John Cantacuzenus allowed the Turks to cross the Dardanelles into Greece. The gates to Europe, so long defended by Constantinople, were now opened to a powerful Muslim empire, and waves of Turks crossed over. By the end of the 14th century, they had conquered all of Bulgaria and most of Greece and had surrounded Constantinople. The rapid expansion of the Turks into Christian Europe changed the nature of the Eastern Crusades. No longer aimed at conquering faraway Palestine, they became desperate attempts to defend Europe itself.
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The Black Plague (Bubonic Plague) was spread by fleas, rats, and people infected with the plague.  There were many cities in germany that had indoor plumbing, sewar systems, and were extremely sanitary.  During this era in other parts of Europe it was common to have farm animals, and other domestic animals in ones house (this way no one could steal them at night), these animals had fleas and the flea bites spread the disease.  For the cities that did not have indoor plumbing, open sewars, or people just threw the pot out the window when it was full, this attracted the rats whose fleas continued to spread the plague.  Lastly, cleanliness was not observed as it is today, so people might take a bath once or twice a year, this too hindered them.  Lastly, many of those cities that weren't infected totally were probably in the northern reaches of Germany or in mountainous areas that were difficult to reach.  The freezing cold killed fleas and animals infected, it also helped to kill some of the plague, but not all.  Cities probably walled themselves off from outsiders to protect themselves from the plague and only allowed clean people to enter.\nRemember:\n "Ring around the rosy,\nPocket full of posy,\nAshes, Ashes,\nWe all fall down."
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The battle of Armageddon is a Plague event.  Trumpet events follow Seal events followed by Plague events.  Seal events have not yet concluded.\n\nAt the Sixth Plague the way is PREPARED for the soon coming battle of Armageddon, and the Dragon and the beast and the false prophet,  and their armies are gathered together (by Spiritual forces) into "a place" for the battle (Re.16:12-16, Jer 51:36, Jer.51:49, Isa.63:2-3 below).\n\nAfter the Seventh, and final, PLAGUE, after the great city Babylon comes into remembrance before God, after the fall of that great city Babylon (Re.16:17-21, Revelation chapter 18), the battle of Armageddon will be fought.\n\nThe battle will be fought after the marriage of the Lamb has taken place in heaven.  The church of God (1 Cor.10:32) throughout all ages (the wife) has made herself ready (Re.19:17) and are the armies of the Lord that accompanies Him to the battle (Re.19:14).  \n\nThe end of the battle of Armageddon will mark the beginning of the Millennium.\n\nDirectly after the battle of Armageddon (Re.19:11-21) is fought, and after the beast and the false prophet are taken in the battle and cast into the lake of fire (Re.19:20), the Lord will stand upon the mount of Olives (Zech.14:4 below).\n\nSaints of the most High (Dan.7:22), the Lamb’s wife, will live AND reign with Him throughout the Millennium, the thousand years (Re.20:4).\n\n\nRe.16:12And the SIXTH angel poured out his vial upon the great river Eu-phra-tes; and the water thereof was dried up (Jer.51:36 below), that the way of the kings (Re.17:12-14) of the east might be PREPARED.\n\nRe.16:13And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon (Re.12:9, Re.20:2, Re.9:11), and out of the mouth of the beast (Re.13:1-8), and out of the mouth of the false prophet (Re.13:11-17).\n\nRe.16:14For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and the whole world, TO GATHER THEM TO THE BATTLE OF THAT GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY (Re.19:19).\n\nRe.16:16And he (the Sixth Plague angel) GATHERED THEM TOGETHER INTO A PLACE (Jer.51:49 below) called in the Hebrew tongue Ar-ma-ged-don.\n\n\nJer.51:36Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee (Isa.63:2-3 below); and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry (Re.16:12 above).\n\nJer.51:49As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall (Dan.11:33, Lk.21:24), so at Babylon (Re.14:20, Re.18:16, Re.18:18) shall fall the slain of all the earth. \n\n\nIsa.63:2Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?\n\nIsa.63:3I have trodden the winepress alone (Re.14:20, Jer.51:49 above); and of the people there was none with me: for I (Re.19:13, Jn.1:1) will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.\n\n\nZech.14:4And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.\n\n\n\n\nPat (ndbpsa ©)
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Troy is a good answer and certainly a famous one, but I'm going to go with Gordion, capital city of ancient Turkey but now no more. I wonder whether it had anything to do with the famous "Gordion Knot?" It was fun looking this up. Thanks for the question!
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http://idcs0100.lib.iup.edu/WestCivI/the8.htm\n\nhttp://www.rotten.com/library/history/plague/\n\nhttp://www.onlineessays.com/essays/history/his058.php