How might the world have been different had the Ottomans not taken over Constantinople?
2007-10-20 15:43:33 · 2 answers · asked by Nicole M 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Some historians have claimed that the fall of Constantinople to the Turks meant that Christian scholars fled to Italy and spurred on the Renaissance, so perhaps the new birth of thinking and ideas in art and science would have been delayed in Europe if the city had not been conquered in 1453 CE.
If Europe had not embraced this new tendency to thought and exploration, Europe may not have embarked on the overseas expansion which led to European cultures suffusing the modern day world - North America, South America, and the profound European influence in Africa and Asia (India, China, Japan, Korea, etc.)
I think the Renaissance would have happened anyway - that it had already started before 1453 - but your teacher may like this answer. These "What If" questions are always exercises in guesswork, but they do entail careful thinking which is the goal of school if you get right down to it. And the rebirth of new thinking is what the Renaissance was all about.
2007-10-20 16:04:53 · answer #1 · answered by Spreedog 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the Constantinoplians would be avid practitioners of the "******" technique
2007-10-20 22:52:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋