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Mindmap über Venedig

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

Mindmap über Venedig

	Created by saraegenolf over 10 years ago