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Byzantium Couldn't Afford the Cannon That Killed It
Late Byzantine Empire

Byzantium Couldn't Afford the Cannon That Killed It

A Hungarian cannon-maker offered his guns to the Byzantine emperor first in 1453, and was turned away for lack of funds.

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