Yao Li

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An oblique note of jealousy crept into the reports sent back to the small towns of Normandy and the Rhine: “since the beginning of the world,” wrote the marshal of Champagne, “never was so much riches seen collected in a single city.” It was a vivid temptation.
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
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