Mindmap über Venedig

Mindmap über Venedig

1. 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

2. 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

3. religion

   • Catholicism : major religion , official status
   • many Jews
   • some Muslims

4. city of freedom

   • multicultural : trading, merchants
   • city built on water channels

5. language

   • spoken language : latin

6. antisemitism

   • traditional antisemitism : among Venetian lower class
   • Jews : eating flesh , drinkin blood of Christian children, ritual cannibals

7. aristocratie

8. 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

9. business city

10. bridges

11. in Italy

12. 16th century

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