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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire tells the story of the Roman Empire from the time of Trajan in the third century to the fall of Constantinople in the sixteenth. Along the way Gibbon describes not only the internal issues that arise within the empire, but also the various outside forces that contribute to its fall: the Goths, Huns, Persians, Muslims, and many others. He also has two highly controversial (at the time, and still...
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22 audio discs (approximately 28.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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In Volume 6, Gibbon ends his maserful history by charting the rise of the Turkish nation and the birth of the Ottoman, which becomes an unstoppable force as it eventually captures the remains of the Eastern Empire. Weakened under the continuing schism of the Greek and Latin Christians, the strategically importment site of Constantinople becomes an easy target for Sultan Mohammed II, much to the consternatio and apathy of the West.
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