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The Crusades, c1095–1204

Venice and the Doge Enrico Dandolo

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Overview

Recall questions on the terms of the fleet contract, the debt that took the crusade to Zara, Venetian grievances against Byzantium, and what the republic gained.

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Who and when

How did the debt to Venice shape the crusade's decisions?

Who and when

What did Venice agree to provide for the Fourth Crusade?

Who and when

What did Venice gain from the Fourth Crusade?

Questions from this subtopic

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  1. 1

    Which Italian maritime republic contracted to transport the crusade, leaving it heavily in debt?

    Model answer

    Venice.

  2. 2

    Who was the aged, blind Doge of Venice who directed the crusade's course?

    Model answer

    Enrico Dandolo.

  3. 3

    What did Venice agree to provide for the Fourth Crusade?

    Model answer

    Transport ships for a year's service, fifty war galleys and provisions for nine months, in return for 85,000 marks, with Venice also taking half of all conquests.

  4. 4

    What did the contract cost Venice before the crusade even sailed?

    Model answer

    A year of its shipbuilding capacity and much of its commerce, since the republic suspended normal trade to build the fleet, which is why it refused to write off the debt.

  5. 5

    Why did the crusaders attack Zara in 1202?

    Model answer

    They could not pay the Venetians, and Dandolo proposed that they work off the debt by recovering Zara on the Dalmatian coast, a Christian city that had revolted from Venice to Hungary.

  6. 6

    What were Venice's commercial priorities in the eastern Mediterranean?

    Model answer

    Securing trading privileges and bases against its rivals Genoa and Pisa, and protecting its position in Constantinople, where Venetian merchants had suffered in earlier riots.

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