Tell me about the Venetians. Why were they such dicks?

>>1026018
The Venetians were essentially the richest nation around a bunch of poorer nations. I presume they just feel superior to the other nations/countries.

>>1026018
>dicks
They pursued their own interests as all successful cities-states should

>>1026105
Didn't they eventually get BTFO'd? How did they get away with their Crusades antics?

>>1026018

They were Catholics and Italians, so as they are not Anglos or Protestants they are not considered the forefathers of Capitalism that they were.

>>1026018
What I want to know is what the Genoan-Venetian rivalry was like

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>>1026111
>How did they get away with their Crusades antics?
Papa Enrico knew how to play the game.

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>>1026018
>Venice
they should just get flooded already

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>>1026114
>They were Catholics and Italians, so as they are not Anglos or Protestants they are not considered the forefathers of Capitalism that they were.

>>1026018
They weren't dicks, they just occupied a lucrative economic niche in the global trade network.

>>1026111
>antics
You mean doling out justice where it was needed most?

>>1026134
Attack each other on site. Even in Crusader cities in the process of being captured.
They really, REALLY didn't like each other.

>>1026018
Lotta unloyalty for a Christian nation (with fellow byzantines)

>>1026599
Maybe he's wondering why someone would kill a pretender before paying his promised reward?

>>1026141
Byzaboos BTFO

>>1026580
This is a meme

>>1026018
>half of europe declares war on you
>literally no way of winning military
>actually do find a way out
>folks call you dicks for it

honestly them surviving that war is god damn impressive

>>1026914
what war was this anyway?

>>1026923
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_League_of_Cambrai

>>1026018
They live in sewers like rats.

>>1026018
>Venice gets ganged upon
>everyone sucks aside from France
>the pope gets scared of France so he switches sides and brings with him all his allies against France
>then the pope decides to also keep fighting Venice
>Venice's quarrel is with the pope, not France, so they ally the frogs against his holy cuntiness
>Venice and France hilariously rek everyone else
I fail to see how Venice was the dick in this war.
This is literally all on the pope, arguably Austria too, but mostly the pope.

>>1027249
Based France and based Venice

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>>1026018
Obligatory

>implying the pope didnt deserve it

>>1026114
>not Anglos
>What are the fucking Dutch?
Anglos had fuck all to do with it

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>>1026538
>wanting the real pearl of the Adriatic to be flooded

Barbaric villainous scum!

>>1029976
lel

>>1029976
that was awful

>>1030000
Waste of quads

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>>1026018
They were übermensch.

As the Western Roman Empire collapsed, Venetians were the last vestige of civilization in the region. Any eurocucks with a 3 digit IQ who weren't lucky enough to be born to some warlord or willing to wear the chastity cage and join the church would gravitate to their trade network, of which Venice became the core (along with Genoa, their mirror image on the other side of the Apennine Peninsula) after the Eastern Roman Empire declined.

While other states were still a feudal theocratic mess, Venice was spook free until the renaissance spread all over Europe and the übermensch went elsewhere. As such, instead of fighting pointless religious wars or dying in someone else's succession crisis, the Venetians would fight to expand trade or sack Constantinople.

>>1029976
terrible

Why the fuck is there no movie or anything regarding Carlo Zeno?

>be destined for the priesthood
>fuck that, I like pussy and getting paid
>become a mercenary
>remove some kebab
>go on the run after killing a knight because he was a being a cunt
>become a merchant
>get back into Venetian good graces
>become an admiral
>heroically save the day in the most important war Venice ever fought which turns the Genoese into cucks for the rest of their existence
>personally lead men in battle on the front lines in your 70s
>Venetians see things that may or may not indicate mild corruption
>put in jail
>gets out, become a mercenary in your 70s and 80s
>return back to Venice
>die
>treated as a hero anyway

>>1030000
>>1030170
?

>>1030287
Sounds like a cunt
Glad they never made a movie about him

>>1029986
>Barbaric villainous scum!
Nice description of Venice you got there.

>>1030566
>venice
>barbaric

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>>1030613
You're right, they're not barbaric. They're the plotters behind barbarism though.

>>1030339
>Sounds like a cunt
t. Doria