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How was the fall of Constantinople considered a symbolic loss for Western Europeans?​

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The Fall of Constantinople severely hurt trades in the European region. The Ottoman conquest affected the highly lucrative Italian trade and gradually reduced trade bases in the region. Also the fall was just the first step that eventually turned the Black Sea and the Mediterranean into Turkish lakes for trade.

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