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World History II (The Western Roman Empire crumbled overrun by invading…

- - - - Two years later, Belisarius attacked Rome and seized it from a group known as the Ostrogoth.
        
        the hippodrome held 60,000 spectators about chariot races and performance acts. Two fan groups sparked citywide riots called the Nika Rebellinon.
        
        After Justinian's death in 565, the empire sufferd countless setbacks. There were street riots, religious quarrels, palace intrigues and foreign dangers.
        
        The plague of Justinian, the first crisis actually began before Justinian's death. It probably arrived from India on ships infested with rats.
        
        The Persians and Avars struck against Constantinople itself in 626. With the rise of Islam, Arab armies attacked the city in 674 and once again in 717. Russian attempted invasions of the city three times between 860 and 1043.
        
        The Turks took over the Muslim world and fought their way slowly into Byzantine territory.
        
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        Finally, the city fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
        
        Historian estimate that in 542, the worst year of the plague, 10,000 people were dying everyday.
        
        The illness broke out repeatedly until around 700.
        
        It had destroyed a huge percentage of the Byzantine population.