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"When the initial siege failed to take the city,* [the Ottoman] Sultan Mehmet II summoned the cannon-makers and spoke to them about what cannon could be used to demolish the northern wall of the city, along the bay of the Golden Horn. They assured him it would be easy to demolish that wall if they could construct another massive cannon. The Sultan immediately provided them with everything they needed. So they constructed the cannon, a thing most fearsome to see and altogether unbelievable. With an astounding thunder and a flame that lit up all the surroundings, the canon hurled stones that hit the wall with tremendous force and velocity and immediately knocked it down.After a long and bitter struggle, the Ottomans prevailed and their entire army poured into the city through the breach in the walls. They robbed and plundered, and the whole city was despoiled and blackened as if by fire. The Sultan then entered the city and saw its great size, grandeur, and beauty. When he saw what a large number had been killed and the wholesale ruin and destruction of the city, he was filled with compassion. Tears fell from his eyes as he groaned: 'What a great city we have given over to plunder and destruction!'"*The Byzantine capital Constantinople, which was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1453 and renamed IstanbulMichael Kritovoulos, Byzantine noble, History of Mehmet the Conqueror, written in the 1460sThe conduct of the siege as described in the passage could best be used to explain which of the following processes in the period 1450-1750?A. The transmission of new weapons along trade networksB. The use of new weapons by expanding imperial statesC. The use of new weapons to establish trading-post empiresD. The development of new processes of manufacturing to create new weapons
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