How would you react to an ex-convict who had spent many years in the harshest and roughest prisons, living and working close to you? What if you had young children?

I wouldnt want them near my children's

the conditions that made the byzantine empire vulnerable to attacks by the muslin turks were the sack of constantinople by western crusaders, the conquests of the sultanate of rum, presence of rival kingdoms and finally the set up of fiefdoms at the empire which were owned by the ghazis (turkish warriors).