Out with the Old…
lBy 1400, the
Byzantine Empire was in decline (with
the help of Ottoman Turks).
lConstantinople
falls in 1453 to the Turks.
l1258: Fall of
the last Arab Caliphate (Abbasid)
lThe
fall of Islamic Caliphate did NOT delete Islam, nor its empires from the maps of the world.
lTrade
was disrupted, but will rebound by 1400
lThe
Ottoman Turks will reestablish much of the power lost by the Caliphate in the 1500s-1700s.