It’s pretty wild that the fall of Byzantium, and therefore the last of Roman civilization, could be summed up as: 1. Cousins of Mongols called Turks came to Anatolia 2. Converted to Islam to help recruit soldiers 3. Knocked out Byzantines, then the former Byzantines said “we’ll take it from here, we’re the Ottomans now” 4. Mongol cousin dudes intermarry and are absorbed into the Anatolian Greek population