Renaissance

How a Bookkeeping Slip Helped Lose Constantinople

A Venetian merchant's miscalculation in his ledger book accidentally triggered the collapse of the Byzantine Empire.

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Byzantine EmpireOttoman EmpireVeniceConstantinopleSiegeTradeAccountingMathematicsMedieval Finance15th Century

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