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Turning point · The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476

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Map showing Constantinople founded — The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476
TURNING POINT · THE RISE AND FALL OF ROME, 264 BC – AD 476

11 May 330 — A new Rome on the Bosporus: peninsula, harbor, and the junction of Europe and Asia. The best-defended city in the world will not fall for 1,123 years.

This is one scene of Chapter 9 — Diocletian and Constantine in The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476.

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