Honorius

im siding with the church as is flavius...i would love to see hagia restored to its former beauty and be restored to a church once again....but i highly doubt that the Turks would consider this...oh well

im leaning towards burial aswell considering my entire family is catholic and stuff... except i dont like the thought of my body beaing eaten by bugsys lol

im roman catholic...but i dont really believe everything that goes with catholicism so i guess im jsut christian..

Although literary works would be good to bring back to our times i would personally bring back... A cloak of the Virgin Mary (hopefully she doesnt think im stalking her lol) Alot of denarii And probably a Bust and if room i would steal a few Papyri from the Library of Alexandria

goodluck and i hope it gets published mate

thanks Neos, Tafe isnt exactly university its just a high school but only for those who want to finish of the last 2 years of Hs (year 11 and 12) but i guess its different in America.. Anyway pm when u decide who your gonna choose next from the emperors. coz its ur turn now

You`re wrong, crusaders initially didn`t plan to sack Constantinople, but to make Alexius, son of Isaac, emperor and to overthrow Alexius III. Alexius promised to return his empire to Roman church, to give money to crusaders, to take part in their Crusade and then to keep some of his soldiers in Holy land. When they did it and Alexius and his father became emperors they refused to pay the crusaders and even started to fight them. So the crusaders said that they will take that he promised befor in any case. Both emperors were overthrown by Murtzuphlus and that Murtzuphlus decided to wage war against cruseders, but he was defeated and Constantinople was taken a second time. Moreover there were 3 fires in Constantinople, two of them - during the siege, and the last - because of quarrel between Venetians and Francs and their battles on the streets. So the main reason of disasters is this fires. And they were not planned by crusaders. Nevertheless some of crusaders came to Syria (the plan was to come to Syria, then to defeat Egypt and then to return Jerusalem), but they were defeated because their forces were too small. And the general forces of crusaders (they never rejected the plan to fight against muslims) were defeated by Bulgarian king and they weren`t able to wage war with new enemies. Phil is correct...the crusaders failed to make up the fees required to pay the Venetians as alot of crusaders travelled to the southern ports of italy and the city of genoa to reach the holy land...Also you left out the capture of Zara

well today i enrolled in Tafe (those who arnt in Australia Tafe is like a community college... im finishing my high school education there). Although tafe is alot better in the areas of Ancient and modern history i have the prospect of having to make a whole new group of friends. its rather daunting but i suppose everyone who is going is in the same boat as me. other then enrolling i finished typing up an article on Tiberius Constantine who reigned after Justin II Anyway some people might be thinking why i left my high school to go to tafe. 1) My high school was Catholic (im catholic but they were so hypocritical in their teachings) 2) My school was racist 3) school has 40 hours a week while tafe is only 18 hours 4) Different variety of people from all walks of life. anyway thats todays happenings and my whingefest about stuff cya

k cool PP when i get time i will begin hopefully soon

hey thanks heaps Lacertus

i dont think the Venetians sent supplies but i have read that they allowed the Byzantine emperor to recruit Cretan soldiers

i dont think our region was worht taking over

hey everyone, When christianity became the official state religion was cremation still widely practiced?... and also.... im Catholic but i know next to nothing on why burial is more common then cremation? could anyone enlighten me?

Im no expert at Caesar, Gaius or their battles.. but those numbers seem a bit over the top..and as seen before wikipedia isnt to reliable as a source

hey, was just wondering if the emperor list is going to extend past Anastasius up to Constantine XI Paleologus? I know its alot of emperors and that the info on many of the earlier emperors still hasnt been done.. but im sure myself and a few others would contribute to the section

not a bad idea favonius it would probably work. but if not you could simply take the primarily Genoan settlement of Galata on the other side of the horn. there was a single tower there that held one side of the chain. if you captured the lightly defended tower you could lower the chain... a problem with Constantinople is that the tower was never really heavily defended..

Guys jsut the other day i was thinking on how the chain worked and then i got onto the questions as to "what happened to the great chain the gaurded the golden horn?"... does it lie at the bottom of the golden horn? or did the ottoman sultans continue to use it after their capture of Constantinople?

this would be cool divi, though there are random weather events. I was jsut playing as ERE (Byzantines) and in thrace there was a massive flood. the flood destroyed many buildings and killled some troops.. although they dont occur all that much i think u can play around with how many times it occurs in the RTW files on your comp

Hye guys i know this is really random but was wondering if you guys have any phobias? if so explain what it means. i dont knwo the name but im extremely afraid of cockroaches

It looks great. Yes i didnt like the first MTW aswell i was in the same situation as you longbow... the graphics where jsut disgraceful. Any who it looks great . Which faction are you going to play first?

I do recall reading somewhere that sparta did have its own league but i cant remeber the name...maybe achaen?

ok thanks palim im looking forawrd to them

hey thanks for the link Neos