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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 4080461, member: 76194&quot;]Yeah, that was the only real weakness. I can forgive some of the visuals due to the needs and constraints of the production, and overall they did a magnificent job with what they had.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, the one area that also troubled me was the lack of mention that the city was looted for 3 days and thousands of civilians were killed, enslaved, or raped. It was only at the end of the 3rd day that the Sultan gave a general pardon to anyone still hiding in the city, and put an end to the looting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still, as brutal as it sounds (and I wish the series would have mentioned it) this was not an uncommon practice back in ancient or medieval times, so in that sense the Ottomans weren&#039;t any more brutal than any of their contemporaries or predecessors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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