Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Mindmap über Venedig
- trading
- like New York : industrial & banking sectors , being cosmopolitan & decadent : its prostitutes & courtesans were famous Europe-wide
- international trade
- many merchants
- "now what news on the Rialto" (Act 3, scene 1)
- spices, glass, drapery ( Stoffe)
- trading by using ships
- canals, seeways
- all the seeways lend in Venice
- travel
- central point of trading
- money
- economy
- "try what my credit can do in Venice" (Act 1, scene 2)
- trading with money
- "three thousand ducats for three months and Antonio bound" (Act 1, scene 3)
- international trade
- religion
- Catholicism : major religion , official status
- many Jews
- some Muslims
- city of freedom
- multicultural : trading, merchants
- city built on water channels
- language
- spoken language : latin
- antisemitism
- traditional antisemitism : among Venetian lower class
- Jews : eating flesh , drinkin blood of Christian children, ritual cannibals
- aristocratie
- Venetian law
- own laws
- strict law
- "If it be prov'd against an alien that by direct or indirect attempts he seeks the life of any citizen (...)" (Act 4, scene 1)
- discrimination of Jews by the law - had to live in their own ghetto
- need to wear a sign of being a Jew
- Jews are not accepted by the Christians - big hatred between Christians & Jews
- own country
- business city
- bridges
- in Italy
- 16th century