Constantinople - Hughes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze7EGorOk

In the eighth grade my social studies teacher taught us about the establishment of Constantinople and how it was later transformed into Istanbul and at the end of the segment he showed us this wonderful song by The Four Giants, and I have never forgotten that Istanbul was once Constantinople and that you can't go back to Constantinople because it's been a long time gone! I still, to this day will get this song stuck in my head at the most random times. So in relation to Hughes, Constantine established Constantinople in 330 C.E a little bit after he was named emperor. Constantinople was Constantine's new city inspired by Christianity shortly after he practically banned Paganism. He wanted the new city to be brand new in Christianity without any traces of Paganism. He had to build an entirely new city, Hughes says that "in some respects it repeated the layout of Rome, with a central Forum, a Senate House, an Imperial Palace, and a main street, the Mese," (P. 156). Constantine died in 337 C.E, and in the Middle Ages, the city was conquered by the Muslims, and the re-naming of Constantinople starts there, and as the song states, the name changed because "people just liked it better that way" and "it's nobody's business but the Turks!"