Venice: The Glorious and Ruthless City that Should Have Never Existed

The city of Venice is incredibly unique and has a history that is filled with brilliant innovations, impressive achievements, and brutal tactics. Today, the city is romanticized, with its lovely scenery and renowned gondolas, but throughout its history the city was actually ruthless. In this video, we explore the history of the city of Venice—from small Medieval independent republic to modern metropolis. We seek to highlight Venice's unique founding, its battles with the Ottomans, its defense of Christendom, its innovative maritime protocols leading to economic superpower status, and its intricate dealings with mercenaries and assassins—including those involved in the major plot to kill one of the most feared Ottoman sultans in history: Mehmed the Conqueror. Inspired by: @TalkHistoryTV @Maxinomics @FunWorldHistory @SleepyTimeHistoryYT @empiresrevisited @realtimehistory @MeditativeHistory @TheEntireHistoryDocumentaries @TheInfographicsShow @KingsandGenerals @hauntedcosmos_ Inspired by:    • A Complete History of Venice   Inspired by:    • History Summarized: The Republic of Venice...   Inspired by:    • The Brutal History of Venice   🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO US ►    / @talkhistory101   🎯 Related Playlists:    • Medieval History: Influential Moments and ...   📕 Recommended Book: https://amzn.to/4wDc5yG On ⁨@TalkHistory101⁩ we explore the events and movements that have shaped the world over the last 5,000 years and we explain modern geopolitics through the lens of history. Our content creators have graduate degrees in history and philosophy, so we're not just random internet dudes. 0:00 Introduction 0:50 A city built on swamp water 1:37 The world's middlemen 2:02 The Fourth Crusade and the bronze horses 3:00 The empire of pearls 3:40 The mirror enemy: Genoa 4:24 "Bridling the horses on St. Mark's" 5:09 The admiral pulled from a dungeon 5:49 Turning the trap around 6:33 An empire run without heroes 7:25 The headless doge 7:58 How Venice actually ran its empire 8:51 The Ottomans arrive 9:30 Fourteen assassination attempts on Mehmed II 10:19 The fall of Negroponte 11:29 Why Venice kept going anyway 11:52 The invention of public debt 12:36 The machine that ran on trust 12:52 Vasco da Gama and the end of the model 13:32 Slow fade to tourist attraction 13:51 The horses are still watching