1 Jan 1453 Jahr - Fall of Constantinople

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Constantinople falls to the Islamic Turks.
Christians viewed this as liberation from oppressive emperors (contra to the western world, the church submitted to the emperor).
ottomans gave church freedom for a time.
Russia saw this as God's judgment. Called Moscow the third Rome which was supposed to uphold orthodoxy.

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