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To get a better perspective on the history of the Roman Empire I really recommend you check out the Further Reading section.
The Fall of Constantinople: A timeline of the last of a great empire (Podcast #023)
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Sources / Further Reading:
Wikipedia: Roman Empire, the legacy - Read this.
Wikipedia: Fall of Constantinople
Wikipedia: Byzantine Empire
Byzantines in Renaissance Italy - An article describing the effect non-scholarly Greeks’ emigration to Italy had on the European Renaissance.
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And, of course, if anyone wants to read an excellent book on this topic…
The book “Fall of Constantinople”?
Not quite. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
This video is also very illuminative. It’s from the PBS documentary “Islam Empire of Faith”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqBPD0qBytI