Timeline for Why is the late Russian Empire associated with Byzantium while having little in common with it?
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| Aug 12, 2020 at 16:01 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | Prior to 1204 Muscovy was a minor trading post, barely describable as a village and protected somewhat from Mongol incursions and raids by both its obscurity and isolation. using that date for your answer makes your answer completely irrelevant to the question. The orthodox Church was still based in Kiev and losing prominence (due to Mongol influence) in 1204, and still two centuries from relocating to Moscow as a headquarters. | |
| Aug 12, 2020 at 15:08 | comment | added | llywrch | If you look at my answer, I clearly said until 1204. Before that time, Constantinople was the leading city of Europe; after that when the Crusaders sacked the capital of the Byzantine Empire, it was as you said, a ghost town. And the formative period of Russian history was prior to 1204. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 20:19 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | Further, Constantinople is already, for generations, a ghost town within its own walls.The smaller but wealthy and thriving cities of coastal Europe were the real cities well before Constantinople fell in 1453. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 20:17 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | Actual sources for these claims would greatly improve this answer. Even taking the lower numbers from this table of estimated city populations in 1400unity_sizes#Early_Modern_era we get: Constantinople at just 75,000 exceeded by all of Genoa at 80,000; Venice at 85,000; Granada at 100,000; Paris at 100,000; and Milan at 125,000. Ghent at 70,000 and all of London, Florence, Prague, naples, Cologne, Bologna, Bruges and Cremona are recovering well from the Plague at between 35,000 and 45,000. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 19:57 | history | answered | llywrch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |