CONSTANTINOPLE - 3D Timelapse

For a thousand years, no army broke through the walls of Constantinople. Then a 21-year-old sultan came with giant cannons, and pulled his ships over a hill. Watch the whole story, from a Greek town on a hill in 667 BC to Istanbul today, as a 3D timelapse. 0:00 Constantinople in 17 seconds 0:20 Two seas and a Greek town 1:05 Destroyed and rebuilt 1:20 Constantine's New Rome 1:57 The great walls 2:31 The Nika riot 2:47 The Hagia Sophia 3:10 Plague, sieges and Greek fire 4:18 The Crusaders 4:35 A shrinking city 5:13 1453: the siege 5:52 The Ottoman capital 7:19 Istanbul 8:10 Istanbul today 8:26 Then and now 8:38 The whole story in 20 seconds Pictures: Wikimedia Commons, public domain, except Facquis (CC BY-SA 4.0), Ssolbergj (CC BY 3.0), TRAJAN 117 (CC BY-SA 3.0), David Ll L (CC BY-SA 4.0), Cplakidas (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Terrain: Copernicus DEM. Music (in order of appearance): "Truth in the Stones" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "The Legion" by Alexander Nakarada (https://creatorchords.com) "Virtutes Vocis" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Angevin" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Drums of the Deep" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Tabuk" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) "Floating Cities" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) All licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Created under Microsoft's Game Content Usage Rules using assets from Age of Empires II. Not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft.