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Gibbon: The Decline and Fall, II

The empire in the east, the rise of new powers, and the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

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Volume
38 of the 1990 set
Author
Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
Work
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (second half) 1781–1789

Ideas: Telling the past Progress and decline War and its causes

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