Carter Grimes on Instagram: "Some say it was the darkest day in history. Others say it was a new beginning. Regardless, the world was never the same after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453. For decades, the collapse had been coming. Constantinople was once the richest city on earth, the beating heart of the Roman world. By the fifteenth century, it was a ghost of itself. Fewer than fifty thousand people lived behind walls built for a million. The empire had shrunk to a city and