Storying the last years of the Byzantine Empire from the Fourth Crusade to the final fall of Constantinople in 1453 and assessing whether the interference of Timur at the turn of the 15th century could have been the last chance for survival for the "fag-end of the Roman Empire" (according to my university tutor)

Highlighting the military collapse of the most influential empire the world has ever known

From the time they first arrived on the steppes of eastern Europe through the reign of Attila until their defeat on the lost Nedao river, the Huns were one of, if not the, dominant force in continental Europe. At their height they ruled a domain that stretched from the Black Sea to modern day France and as far south as northern Greece and the river Po in Italy.

A study of the aftermath of the abortive Fourth Crusade which, instead of attacking the Turkish 'enemies of the faith' in the Holy Land, captured two Christian cities in the eastern Mediterranean, putting the last bastion of eastern Christianity, Constantinople, to the sack in 1204.