A map illustrating the political situation in Europe, East Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa around 1450, just before the fall of Constantinople, the expansion of the Ottoman Empire under Mehmed II, the Conqueror, and the transformation of the Grand Duchy of Moscow into the Russian Empire under Ivan III, the Great. ... www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=401041069103742&set=a.205686711972513 |