Venice

Venice was made out of hundreds of island on the northern tip of the Adriatic sea. Venice was built on the sea. Venice was literally built for ocean trade, Venice is still trading today but not as much as before because they lost the war against the Turks. Venice didn't have natural resources only fish because they're on the sea. They relied on trade to survive. Venicians became experts on building ships. Not only could they build ships they could also sail them. The Venice has experienced trading with the Islamic world. The Venice had all the pepper. There are no historical records that deal directly with Venice. Some late Roman sources reveal the existence of fishermen on the islands in the original marshy lagoons. From the ninth to the twelfth century Venice developed into a city state. The Republic of Venice seized a number of places on the eastern shores of the Adriatic before 1200, mostly for commercial reasons, because pirates based there were a menace to trade. When the forth crusade needed ships they went to Venice because the Venicians were famous for their ships especially merchant ships. The Egyptian merchants weren't terribly welcome in Europe. Venice imported lots, but mostly grain. The Ottomans was an empire that lasted to 1300 C.E to 1990 making it the longest lasting and riches empire in world history. Suleiman the Magnificent defeated the king of Hungary. He took valuable territory in Mesopotamia and in Egypt. Venice is known for it's glass and it still is. From the ninth to the twelfth century Venice developed into a city state. Venice was a republic not a monarchy or God forbidden empire. Suleiman the Magnificent turn Ottomans into naval power. Suleiman had a huge huge huge hat. Venice became supper rich.Venice never got a tsunami ever but I think they soon will. Venice houses was made out of marble. Saint Mark died in Alexandria but the Venicians claimed him as their own. The Ottomans Kidnapped Christian boys and converted them into Islam and turned them into Janissaries. The Venicians made their money by taxes. Sometime in the first decades of the eighth century the people of the lagoon elected their first leader Ursus. Charlemagne was initially hostile to Venice. Venice is the capital of the Veneto region.The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century B.C. Venice has been known as the "La Dominante", "Serenissima", "Queen of the Adriatic", "City of Water", "City of Masks", "City of Bridges", "The Floating City", and "City of Canals". Venice has played an important role in the history of symphonic and operatic music, and it is the birthplace of Antonio Vivaldi. Constantinople fell to the Ottomans and was renamed to Istanbul. Pepper masked the taste of spoiled meat. Two merchants stole the body of Saint Mark and hid it in a shipment of pork which the Muslims didn't check very carefully  because they were disgusted by it. Clever merchants. Venice has also been described by the Times Online as being one of Europe's most romantic cities. Venice is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. The city in its entirety is listed as World Heritage Site, along with its lagoon. The Venetians offered asylum to the Exarch Paul, who was in flight from the Lombard Liutprand. Byzantine domination of central and northern Italy was subsequently largely eliminated by the conquest of the Exarchate of Ravenna in 751 by Aistulf. Venice became an imperial power following the Venetian-financed Fourth Crusade, which in 1204 seized and sacked Constantinople and established the Latin Empire.