Question

Which of the following were major strategic benefits of the conquest of Constantinople to the Ottomans? as the capital of the Roman Empire, conquest of the city allowed Mehmed II a legal basis for claiming to be Roman emperor Constantinople/Istanbul was a highly defensible city and an ideal location as an imperial capital the city had a very large population in the 1450's, and conquering it added an enormous number of tax-paying subjects to the empire gave them control over trade between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean

Answer 1

The fall of the city removed what was once a powerful defense for Christian Europe against Muslim invasion, allowing for uninterrupted Ottoman expansion into Eastern Europe.

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