On May 29, 1453, after an Ottoman army stormed Constantinople, Mehmed triumphantly entered the Hagia Sophia<span>, which would become the city's </span>leading <span>mosque. Emperor Constantine XI died in battle that day, and the decline and fall of the Byzantine Empire was complete.</span>
Although it unfortunately has been forgotten by many, Jesus preached a message of peace and cooperation, most notably embodied in the phrase" love thy neighbor". It spread because people were refreshed by his words.
No one event was the actual cause of the revolution. It was, instead, a series of events that led to the war. Essentially, it all began as a disagreement over the way Great Britain treated the colonies versus the way the colonies felt they should be treated.
Americans felt they deserved all the rights of Englishmen. The British, on the other hand, felt that the colonies were created to be used in the way that best suited the crown and parliament. This conflict is embodied in one of the rallying cries of the American Revolution: No Taxation Without Representation.
