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Why was Byzantium ultimately unable to resist the Ottoman onslaught? Over its period of existence, from 285AD to 1453, the Byzantines greatest asset was its strength in depth, and its culture. Even before Diocletian partitioned the eastern and western parts of the Roman Empire in 285, the east was seen to be richer and stronger than the west. Egypt was the grain store for the empire, whereas Syria and Anatolia were strong and rich, as well as defensible. The Byzantine Empire was stronger than its enemies (with exception of the Ottoman Turks in the later years), and was aided by the fact that their enemies objectives lay in the conquest of territory, rather in the plunder of its riches. This meant than when territory was lost, it was generally in a reasonably similar state when it was recaptured. This example was shown by Mehmed II, who kept the destruction inside Constantinople...

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