Yao Li

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The failure of Islam to take the city in 717 had far-reaching consequences. The collapse of Constantinople would have opened the way for a Muslim expansion into Europe that might have reshaped the whole future of the West; it remains one of the great “What ifs” of history.
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
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