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I agree that there are conflicting sources and that the amount is not solid, but I still believe 750,000 is way too much. The Byzantine/Roman Empire may not have had enough ships on it's own to transport that many people, but remember that Constantinople was a major trading center and ships from all over Europe, Asia, and Africa were coming in and out each day. And even if if Constantinople was a complete dump with few people, the Ottomans would still have desired it due to it's strategic position as a trading city. Also, how did Rome become useless? It was the seat of the Pope, making one of the most influential cities in Western Europe.Raemos said:I looked it up; And multiple different sources are conflicted, "Jumping Ship" would be a good excuse, if Constantinople possessed enough ships to ferry anyway near a third of the populace away, and the declination of the capital beforehand was in no case cataclysmic, 800,000 doesn't reduce to 100,000 without some solid, logical reasoning. Rome's populace was pretty much slaughtered, the result? Rome became a useless city. Yet Constantinople was still one of the greatest cities in the world even after the Fourth Crusade; hence, the Ottoman's obsession with taking the city.