what was the impact of the ottoman turks capture of constantinople?

Answer 1

It was the official end of the Roman Empire. What had started two thousand years ago, ended. It allowed the Turks to turn to other conquests, and led to the eventual rise of the great western Europe nations. Columbus, seeking a trade route by see to China and India, opened up the modern West for business, and Russia laid claim to Moscow as the third Rome. America sort of pales by its age. We are children when compared to the age of the old nations.

Answer 2

It shut down the Western trade routes with the Far East. The Western traders needed to find a different way to connect with their suppliers, or else pay the exorbitant fees being charged by the Turks. Christopher Columbus, a Venetian (the folks who originally controlled most of the Western trade with the Far East), thought that he could possibly set up an alternate trade route to the East and go around the Ottoman Turks, thereby eliminating the middleman and turning a huge profit in the process.

Whilst trying to find a way to make a buck, he ran into North America, and the rest is, *ahem* history.

Answer 3

The final capture in 1453 probably meant very little, in real terms. The Byzantine Empire was a tiny rump of what it had been. In the last years it was virtually only the area within the walls of Theodosius.

Symbolically, it represented the end of the Roman Empire and the ascendancy of the Ottoman Empire.

Answer 4

It was eventually a blessing for Europe...escaped Constantinople people gave Europe advanced technology and academic achivement that were far more superior to Europe

Answer 5

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