[himno hero]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y

The best 45 minute lecture I have seen to this point on the last 1400 years.

[martian622]

I agree. Thanks for posting the link.

[bronxville]

Thanks for the link. Very informative.

[NJ_Tom]

Interesting video - but I would take exception to one of the speaker’s assertions. He claims that one factor that weakened the Byzantine Empire was the Bubonic Plague - but the Arab expansion began in the 7th Century, while the first European appearance of the Bubonic Plague was in Crimea in 1350.