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The Greeks begin to rebel, sparking retribution . Hundreds of Dragomen and the Greek patriarch are executed.

A disturbing chapter on the slave trade and harem, truly sad, bizarre but very ordinary aspects of Ottoman life .

Great chapter about those who etched pictures of ships on the wall of the Hagia Sophia - the Vikings and their changing relationship with Constantinople.

Hughes gives Justinian a fairly good press and covers his legal code as a major achievement. Good article on the first major recent English edition by Averil Cameron in this month's History Today magazine. http://www.historytoday.com/reviews/l... . She suggests that her view of Justinian isn't as positive as Hughes

The Codex Justinianus comes togrther as collection of laws .

The Imperial regalia are hastily retrieved from Rome after the final Emperor is overturned and taken to Constantinople

Christians go from being persecuted to becoming the persecutors

Theodosius I makes Constantinople 'complete' - aqueducts, storehouses and a huge port. Amazing photos of recently excavated boats. Paganism is banned. He dies the last Emperor of West and East.

God given Constantinoupolis is founded

Constantine defeats Maxentious. Noone stands in the way of him becoming Emperor