Walking through Constantinople in 1200 AD. What would you have seen?

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The history of the city of Constantinople is, similarly to the history of the city of Rome, often wrongly portrayed in many videos, books, movies and in media in general. The same oversimplifications as in the case of Rome, where it is often wrongly said that the city fell in 476 AD, when we by now have learned that Rome actually went on in 476 AD as if nothing happened, and the real disaster came 60 years later with the Gothic wars, these same oversimplifications are also applied to Constantinople, the new Rome. In the case of Constantinople, it is often said that when it fell in 1453, that this was the end of a magnificent and beautiful city, which was very populated and had many magnificent buildings. But, as we shall see in this video, the real disaster for Constantinople actually happened in 1204 AD, when the city was sacked by the 4th crusade, and in reality, by 1453, Constantinople had become more cow pasture than city. But what would an eyewitness have seen before, during and after, the sack of Constantinople in the year 1204 AD?

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