The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler

Volume 4, The Medieval World, Episode 12, The Fall of Constantinople. Oh, you know, you know, you know,

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uh... Oh, Constant in Constantinople, one of the most unique and important cities in world history, a city that throughout history found itself at the center of a major crossroads of world politics, religion and trade. Its location is on a European landmass peninsula pointing towards a similar Asian

landmass peninsula that together act as a barrier between the Black Sea and the larger

Mediterranean Sea. The barrier is penetrated by the Bosphorus Strait which

separate the two peninsula's.

They may have once been joined together as an Isthmus.

The most popular theory about the geological history of this area is that the Black Sea

used to be a disconnected freshwater lake until the degradation of the Isthmus allowed the sea waters of the Mediterranean to dramatically gush

into the Black Sea via the brand new Brosefra Strait that appeared around 7,500 years ago. If this happened, then the sea levels of the Black

Sea would have risen by a considerable amount and has been hypothesized to be the event that is immortalized by many

religious ancient cosmological texts the most famous being the story of Noah's

arc told in the holy books of the three Abrahamic religions.

Evidently humans inhabited the peninsula and the area of the modern city long before the arrival

of the classical world Greeks during the first millennium B.C.

On the Asian side of the Bforas Strait was the city of Kalsidon, a colony of the Greek

mainland town of Meggara. And legend tells us, through many classical Greek scribes that the Greek god Apollo

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