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The 'Cathedral to Wisdom' and a surviving monument Jiang treats as a great Byzantine legacy.
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Hagia Sophia
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay? So, this is Constantine, and he is going to make Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire when he becomes emperor. Okay?..."
Key Notes
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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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Jiang argues that Turkey is key because restoring the Byzantine or Third Rome vision requires recovering Constantinople and returning Hagia Sophia to Christian use.
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Jiang argues that Putin's desired settlement is not to absorb all of Turkey but to recover Constantinople and return Hagia Sophia to Christian use under Greek control.
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"Okay? So, this is Constantine, and he is going to make Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire when he becomes emperor. Okay?..."
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"...almost impossible for the people to invade Constantinople. This is the Hagia Sophia, which is the official church of the new religion. Today we..."
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"...Krasnodar Pole, and not only that, but this is called the Hagia Sophia, which was the main church in Krasnodar Pole and really the..."
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"...ethically still intact but Constantinople is returned to the Greeks and Hagia Sophia is returned as a Christian church and not an Islamic mosque...."
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"...Arabs as well as the Persian Empire. Okay. This is the Hagia Sophia, the Cathedral to Wisdom. And this is the great monument, the..."
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"...human achievement okay so the first example is this is the Hagia Sophia and this was built in 532 in Constantinople it's still in..."
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"...to the Greeks and this will restore the Byzantine Empire. The Hagia Sophia, the main Cathedral in Constantinople, which was the seat for many..."
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