User blog:ANIMALGAMINGXzero/January 16th 27 BCE

Nearly 2000 years ago from today the ROMAN EMPIRE FORMED it would destroy and take over all the land around the Mediterranean as well as a large part of Europe and Egypt and Turkey the empire broke into eastern and western later on with the eastern part for almost over 1,500 years until the ottoman empire gave the final blow by taking its capital Constantinople which was renamed to Istanbul just because ONE GUY did not do his job and close the city gate which resulted in the fall of AN ENTIRE EMPIRE and the deaths of thousands the Ottoman won not just because of this ONE GUY'S mistake but also because the use of gunpowder which allowed for some of the first use of a version of cannons in Europe.