Servais (il/le) to YUROP@lemm.ee · 5 months agoByzantine, Rome and Ottoman empires comparisonfiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down16
arrow-up162arrow-down1imageByzantine, Rome and Ottoman empires comparisonfiles.catbox.moeServais (il/le) to YUROP@lemm.ee · 5 months agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squareKevonLooney@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·edit-25 months agoInteresting, but missing the Islamic empire that conquered all that Byzantine territory in the 600s. It stretched from Pakistan to Spain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Muslim_conquests
minus-squareRoggebrood@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 months agoThen you’d have like double the colors on the map.
minus-squareKevonLooney@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·5 months agoThat’s a problem for the map maker.
minus-squareRoggebrood@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoMaybe we can also add the Macedonian Empire while we are at it
minus-squareKevonLooney@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoWell this is the “yurop” community and they didn’t control any part of modern day “Europe”. No, Turkey isn’t European. It’s always been Asia Minor.
minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoAnd for me trying to understand the damn thing
minus-squares_s@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoThe Sasanian Empire would be more contemporary.
Interesting, but missing the Islamic empire that conquered all that Byzantine territory in the 600s. It stretched from Pakistan to Spain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Muslim_conquests
Then you’d have like double the colors on the map.
That’s a problem for the map maker.
Maybe we can also add the Macedonian Empire while we are at it
Well this is the “yurop” community and they didn’t control any part of modern day “Europe”. No, Turkey isn’t European. It’s always been Asia Minor.
Uh, Macedonia? Greece?
And for me trying to understand the damn thing
The Sasanian Empire would be more contemporary.