Hi, I'm Sariel.

And I'm Umberto.

And we are the hosts of So You Think You Can Rule Persia, a podcast where we rate and review

all the kings of Persia from Day to Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.

Join us for a look at the rulers of Iran, from the medians to the modern day, with plenty

in between.

We'll be discussing the lives and myths of the rulers of Persia, before ranking them all and deciding who is really worthy of the title of King of Kings.

We finished our first season, reaching to the end of the Assassinate Empire, but we've just started up a second season from the rise of Islam all the way to 1979.

We hope to have you along for the right.

Had now back to Robin with the history of Byzantium.

Hello everyone and welcome to the history of Byzantium, episode 343, The End of Crusading, and the Third Rome.

Today let's talk about the reaction to the fall of Constantinople in East and West.

Official confirmation of the fall of the city only reached Venice a month after the event.

Of course, rumours had been swirling in the meantime, but it wasn't until the arrival of a written

report from the Venetian colony at Ubeah that the truth was fully understood.

The relief fleet, the one which arrived too late, followed a few days later.

There was shock and horror and embarrassment.

The Venetians had had other things on their mind when the call for help came.

Now it would seem that their dawdling had cost them dearly.

It wasn't the Byzantines they were primarily worried about, but their own citizens and property,

which had fallen into the hands of the Sultan.

Though they would face criticism for years to come, the Venetian

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