Veranstaltungsort: Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) Mainz, Alte Universitätsstraße 19, Mainz Die Veranstaltung findet statt innerhalb des Leibniz-Forschungsverbundes »Wert der Vergangenheit«. This workshop is the first of three conferences that explore similarities and connections between Ottoman and Spanish histories of expansion in the early modern period as well as lasting memories thereof. It focuses on two key events in world history: the fall of Constantinople and the fall of Tenochtitlán. Although these events have much in common and were interrelated, they have rarely been looked at together. The workshop brings together historians of different regions to discuss how contemporaries saw the end of an old and the beginning of a new era, how they connected these events to ancient prophecies, how they wrote their histories of loss and victory, and how these early narratives have since shaped respective memory cultures. Did the conquerors, the conquered, and the various intermediaries in the Old and New World draw connections between their histories? Did they see, for instance, that the Ottoman expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean pushed the Spanish and Portuguese to seek new trading routes to Asia, which eventually led to the conquest of the Americas? Contact: Denise Klein, klein@ieg-mainz.de Thomas Weller, weller@ieg-mainz.de Barbara Henning, bahennin@uni-mainz.de Richard Herzog, herzogr@staff .uni-marburg.de Foto: Conquista del señorio caxcán de Tenochtitlán (1521) Apulco por los españoles y Tlaxcaltecas 1585, Artist: Diego Muñoz Camargo. © Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apcolco.png