re revelations babylon hal heydt writes that was only the fall of the western empire the eastern empire continued for another years and a key element in it s fall was the christian sack of constantinople note that i said the fall of rome not of the empire the roman empire lasted until with its transfered capital in constantinople the main reason for it s fall was not so much the sack of constantinople by the men of the th crusade who were not christians they had been excommunicated down to the last man after attacking the christian city of zara in croatia but rather the disastorous defeat in the battle of mazinkert after the turks breached the frontier it was only a matter of time before the empire fell the inability of the empire to hold onto the rim of anatolia with the ottomans and rum seljuks in the middle should be quite obvious to any student of history the sack of constantinople only hastened the inevitable along for if the greeks had wanted to save their empire why would they not cooperate with the crusaders when they came to do battle with the saracens in the st rd crusades because of their obstinacy over cooperating with people they considered heretics even though those heretics were fighting for the cause of the empire and christendom in doing battle with the turkish hordes in anatolia edessa lebanon palastine and syria the some hordes who were to later sack constantinople and overrun a third of europe the balkans hungary the ukraine the caucasus etc andy byler
