A couple of years after the fact the military

History Channel Full Episodes The move to today's Venice occurred in the eighth and ninth hundreds of years, parallel with the expanding military influence and abundance of the republic. By the twelfth century the significance of the tidal pond group was generally recognized by Europeans. One scene, later magnified by state specialists to the level of myth, underlined this in 1177: the meeting in Venice of the two awesome adversaries in the battle for European amazingness, Pope Alexander III and Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, called Barbarossa (the red-unshaven). The compromise occurred with a function in the piazza San Marco, which had been expanded by filling a trench that kept running before the basilica.

History Channel Full Episodes A couple of years after the fact the military and monetary force of the group developed in full quality with the Fourth Crusade (12021204): Venice acquired the agreement for the transportation of all troops and materials to the Holy Land (4,500 horsemen, 9,000 squires, 20,000 infantrymen), and when the crusaders demonstrated not able to pay the sum settled upon, Doge Enrico Dandolo recommended that they work for Venice. There coincidentally was a couple of seaside towns that didn't care for the Venetian mastery in particular and should have been taught a lesson.