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Constantinople’s wealth, sea walls, and location allow Byzantium to defend Anatolia and Egypt and survive for roughly a thousand years.
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Constantinople
Jiang says Putin's mission, under this hypothesis, is to finish Stalin's failed mission by restoring the Byzantine Empire and making Moscow's Third Rome destiny real.
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The scenario has Turkey destroyed, Greeks returning to Constantinople, Byzantium restored, the Orthodox world unified, and Greater Israel becoming an empire that destroys the Dome of the Rock to build the Third Temple.
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Jiang says Putin's mission, under this hypothesis, is to finish Stalin's failed mission by restoring the Byzantine Empire and making Moscow's Third Rome destiny real.
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He describes a prophecy attributed to Paisios of Mount Athos in which Russia and Turkey go to war, Russia defeats Turkey, and Constantinople/Hagia Sophia return to the Orthodox world.
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The hypothesis says Putin wants to restore the Byzantine Empire, unify the Orthodox world, and retake Constantinople, with Ukraine as the mechanism for those ambitions.
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The Ottoman use of cannons against Constantinople in 1453 marks a European military revolution because walls that had made the city invincible could suddenly be destroyed.
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Spain's search for maritime routes is framed as a response to Christian reconquest, loss of Islamic trade integration, and Ottoman control of the old routes through Constantinople.
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Jiang presents the mainstream Renaissance origin story as a perfect storm of Constantinople's decline, Crusader contact with the Islamic Golden Age, competitive Italian city-states, merchant wealth, universities and monasteries, and the printing press.
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"...and he moves the capital from Rome all the way to Constantinople. Okay? This is really important, because now he can establish a new..."
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"...build high walls, it's almost impossible for the people to invade Constantinople. This is the Hagia Sophia, which is the official church of the..."
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"...destroyed in this process Putin allows the Greeks to return to Constantinople restoring the Byzantine Empire and thus unifying the Orthodox world. After the..."
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"grandson it's possible this very precocious young man it is possible that he could be a second coming of Stalin okay and so this..."
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"this prophecy is attributed most famously to a Greek Orthodox monk named Passios of Mount Anthos there's controversy as to whether or not he..."
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"...Russia is a nuclear superpower and then Russia will hand Turkey Constantinople back to the Greeks and this will restore the Byzantine Empire. The..."
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"...wants to unify the Orthodox world. And he wants to retake Constantinople from the Turks. And this one Ukraine is the perfect platform, is..."
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"...local areas. This changes in 1453, okay? In the city of Constantinople. So for about close to a thousand years, Constantinople was the wealthiest,..."
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"It's always been globalized, so we can assume that even before the Vikings, there were some encounters between the old world and the new..."
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"important is that in 1453, they conquer Constantinople, which was the seat of the Eastern Roman Empire. And so now, for the Europeans to..."
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"...look at the main factors. The first is the decline of Constantinople. So, for hundreds of years, Constantinople was the epicenter of European culture."
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"It is here to the Roman, Greco -Roman legacy. It is here to the Roman, Greco -Roman legacy. But, as the Ottoman Turks start..."
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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The episode's pressure is not that religion sometimes decorates politics.
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The episode begins with two escalations: Ukraine expands, Iran heats up.
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Gunpowder is not powerful because it makes a louder weapon.
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Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
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