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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 5390699, member: 87200&quot;]I think it is interesting that the fall of Constantinople (twice) corresponded to the beginning of the high middle ages (1204 sack by Latins) and the end of the middle ages (1453 by the Ottomans) as well. Between 600 and 1200 the &quot;Greeks&quot; kept Roman civilization alive, as well as Hellenism, until it could be be &quot;re-discovered&quot; by the west during the Renaissance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, keep in mind that the tribes and kingdoms of the early middle ages in the west for the most maintained that the real Imperial authority was in Constantinople, a point not often made in how history is taught in the schools. Charlemagne only made himself holy roman emperor after Irene had been in power for a few years and had rebuffed his marriage overtures.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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