Question

Identify four different reasons that answer the question

Question: What were the biggest causes of the decline of the Byzantine Empire?
For each one, name it and briefly explain how it contributed to the decline.

Answer 1

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Step-by-step explanation:

Bubonic Plague

Black Death spread really fast across the Byzantine empire. Black Death is the most fatal pandemic ever recorded, 75 to 200 million people died from the plague across Europe, Asia, and North Africa from 1346 to 1353.

Attacks by Seljuk Turks.

Where a series of battles shifted the balance of power in Asia Minor and Syria from the Byzantine Empire to the Seljuks. Defeated the Byzantine army in the 1071 Manzikert Battle and opened up Anatolia for Turkish rule.

Crusades- 4th crusade attack on Constantinople.

Crusader armies captured, looted, and destroyed parts of Constantinople, then the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

Ottoman Turks forces attacked and conquered Constantinople.

Was a cannon constructed by Orban, a Hungarian artillery expert, that pounded the walls of Constantinople and eventually broke them down, allowing the Ottoman army to breach the city?