Tag: Trade
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Wealth, power and empire (1200–1400)
Conquest, empire, naval battles, conspiracies, insurrections. The 1200s and 1300s were interesting times for Venice, which was now richer and more powerful than ever.
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Ascendency (1000–1200)
Venice became a more important state in the 1000s and 1100s, and started to build not only their trading empire, but also more equal relations to the Byzantine Empire, the Holy Roman Empire and the Pope in Rome.
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The Roman and Byzantine period
Venice during the Roman and Byzantine times — from the time of Augustus to the end of Byzantine rule in north-eastern Italy in 751 — is the story of where Venice came from, and where the Venetians themselves believed they came from.