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Remember the 60,000 Venetians.. hmm where have i seen this before.. "it accelerated the decline of the independent native merchants in favour of big exporters, who became tied to the landed aristocracy, who in turn increasingly amassed large estates"

submitted by BlueEyedAngloMasterRaceGod to History 3.1 yearsApr 7, 2022 01:00:48 ago (+4/-0)     (History)

is 60,000 jewish-signalling? i know a lot of people claim that the venetians were dominated by jews.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Latins

"The Massacre of the Latins (Italian: Massacro dei Latini; Greek: Σφαγὴ τῶν Λατίνων) was a large-scale massacre of the Roman Catholic (called "Latin") inhabitants of Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, by the Eastern Orthodox population of the city in April 1182.[1][2]

The Roman Catholics of Constantinople at that time dominated the city's maritime trade and financial sector.[1] Although precise numbers are unavailable, the bulk of the Latin community, estimated at 60,000 at the time by Eustathius of Thessalonica,[1] was wiped out or forced to flee. The Genoese and Pisan communities especially were devastated, and some 4,000 survivors were sold as slaves to the (Turkish) Sultanate of Rum.[3]

The massacre further worsened relations and increased enmity between the Western and Eastern Christian churches,[4] and a sequence of hostilities between the two followed."

Read the whole thing, it's short enough and very interesting.


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Found this post searching for Eastern Orthodox material. Seeing how Venice really intrigues me as well, I'm interested if you found any more info