Editing Fall of Constantinople (section)

===Impact on the Renaissance===
{{Main|Greek scholars in the Renaissance}}
The migration waves of [[Byzantine]] scholars and émigrés in the period following the [[Siege of Constantinople|sacking of Constantinople]] and the fall of Constantinople in 1453 is considered by many scholars key to the revival of [[ancient Greece|Greek]] and [[ancient Rome|Roman]] studies that led to the development of the [[Renaissance humanism]]<ref name="Byzantines in Renaissance Italy" />{{better source needed|reason=Tall claim requires high-quality academic citation, not a website|date=November 2016}} and [[History of science in the Renaissance|science]]. These émigrés were grammarians, humanists, poets, writers, printers, lecturers, musicians, astronomers, architects, academics, artists, scribes, philosophers, scientists, politicians and theologians.<ref name="v5gnl" />{{better source needed|date=November 2016}} They brought to Western Europe the far greater preserved and accumulated knowledge of Byzantine civilization. According to the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'': "Many modern scholars also agree that the exodus of Greeks to Italy as a result of this event marked the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance".<ref name="Fall of Constantinople"/>