Today Constantinople is known to the world as Istanbul: the biggest and most western (both culturally and geographically) city in Turkey.
For some time it was the capital of the Byzantine Empire (before it was the capital of the Ottoman Empire) - so the correct answer is Byzantium
They hoped to gain wealth and land
A. Grant's siege forced the starving Confederates to surrender.
The reason why Aryabhatta predictions were mostly credited to Europeans was because European culture was spread around the world.
<h3>Why was Aryabhatta predictions credited to Europeans?</h3>
Aryabhatta predicted that the Earth was spherical and that the moon was only bright thanks to reflections from the Sun. He did this more than a 1,000 years before the Europeans were able to figure it out.
Yet, the Europeans were able to export their culture and knowledge around the world more than the Indians could. This allowed them to change the narrative and make it seem like they discovered a lot of things when in fact they didn't.
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