Keenir
June 23rd, 2007, 07:30 AM
a rough draft of my idea for Venice. hey, when I said it was going to go splat, did you think I was kidding? :D
1501:
Start of the Venetian/Genoan War.
1503:
Mediterranean Sea:
Venice steps up its attacks on Genoan settlements and depots.
Black Sea:
The Genoan ports in the Crimea and elsewhere in the Black Sea are shelled to a state of ruin by the Venetians.
1504-09:
Venice:
The Doge of Venice is beginning to get the upper hand in his dealings with the Council which usually runs Venice.
1505:
Genoa sues for peace. Venice is deeded several Genoan shipping locations.
1513:
Early in the shipping season, the Doge receives an anonomous tip* that a tradesman is planning to take Venetian secrets out of Venice. The Venetian agents capture the tradesman in question, finding shipbuilding drawings among his effects.
As the year progresses, and little information is forthcoming, the Doge puts increasing pressure on the tradesman’s fellows: the inhabitants of Venice’s Armenian quarter.
* = pre- and post-divergence, Venice had the same feature as daVinci’s Florence – anonymity. And in OTL, medieval Venice _did_ have an Armenian quarter.
Late in the shipping season, almost too late to do anything, Ottoman Emperor Isa sends a messenger to Venice, commanding the Council to cease this action with the Armenians, as they are under the protection of the Sublime Porte. Isa himself is of Pontus Greek extraction, but both his first wife (of three) and favorite concubine are Armenians.
1513-4:
Over the Venetian winter, the Doge fumes…all his hard work, his return to the prominence which Doges once held in Venice, which certain spies have reported to the Sultan (after all, its what Venice would do unto other states)…and the Sultan acts as though the Council were still calling the shots. He stops the torture of random Armenians in Venice, though he does not call for the stopping of torture being meted out to those accused of crimes against Venice. In addition, the Doge isolates the Armenian quarter from the rest of Venice, encouraging its fall into disrepair. (hard to fix things when your supplies are on the other side of a barrier)
1514:
Constantinople:
Emperor Isa receives the Doge’s emissary, who tells him that the tortures have stopped. The emissary then makes the mistake of relaying the next part of the Doge’s message: to stop being so commanding of him, for the Sultan still needs Venice.
Isa, the mastermind behind Selim’s expansion of the navy and building of new docks, sees things differently. The Sultan feels that, if Venice is so eager to cut the apronstrings it has with the Empire, then so be it…after all, the Ottomans can easily bottle Venice up in the Adriatic.
{suggestions welcome on the exact lead-in to the Diaspora…the Ottomans could simply siege the heck out of Venice, firing cannonload after cannonload…would any other method have worked?}
Winter of 1517-8:
Venetian Diaspora.
When members of the Diaspora speak, they tell of the perfidity of the heretic, the danger and destruction which aberration from the Church brings trailing along.
1520:
Atlantic Ocean:
As he is brought back to Europe, (-) preaches among the Portugese sailors.
Rome:
Bishop Erasmus attends the Council Of Rome.
1521:
A Portugese ship stops in Venice. (-) disembarks and begins spreading the message of San Christianity. {I forget his name, but he's among the San presently}
1521-1527:
Venice:
San Christians lead the way in rebuilding Venetian life. Between the diaspora and the conversion rate, it is not long before the San Christians are the majority in the city-state.
1527:
Venice:
The re-institution of the Council. In theory and principle, everything in Venice is run according to the dictates of San Christianity. In practice, the Council runs things much as it always has, only this time without the Doge as a figurehead.
However, the Council members are all San Christians – several being strict ones – and ensure that the modesty (in terms of artwork and statuary and ownership) of Venice and Venice’s citizens are in line with the requirements of their faith.
1501:
Start of the Venetian/Genoan War.
1503:
Mediterranean Sea:
Venice steps up its attacks on Genoan settlements and depots.
Black Sea:
The Genoan ports in the Crimea and elsewhere in the Black Sea are shelled to a state of ruin by the Venetians.
1504-09:
Venice:
The Doge of Venice is beginning to get the upper hand in his dealings with the Council which usually runs Venice.
1505:
Genoa sues for peace. Venice is deeded several Genoan shipping locations.
1513:
Early in the shipping season, the Doge receives an anonomous tip* that a tradesman is planning to take Venetian secrets out of Venice. The Venetian agents capture the tradesman in question, finding shipbuilding drawings among his effects.
As the year progresses, and little information is forthcoming, the Doge puts increasing pressure on the tradesman’s fellows: the inhabitants of Venice’s Armenian quarter.
* = pre- and post-divergence, Venice had the same feature as daVinci’s Florence – anonymity. And in OTL, medieval Venice _did_ have an Armenian quarter.
Late in the shipping season, almost too late to do anything, Ottoman Emperor Isa sends a messenger to Venice, commanding the Council to cease this action with the Armenians, as they are under the protection of the Sublime Porte. Isa himself is of Pontus Greek extraction, but both his first wife (of three) and favorite concubine are Armenians.
1513-4:
Over the Venetian winter, the Doge fumes…all his hard work, his return to the prominence which Doges once held in Venice, which certain spies have reported to the Sultan (after all, its what Venice would do unto other states)…and the Sultan acts as though the Council were still calling the shots. He stops the torture of random Armenians in Venice, though he does not call for the stopping of torture being meted out to those accused of crimes against Venice. In addition, the Doge isolates the Armenian quarter from the rest of Venice, encouraging its fall into disrepair. (hard to fix things when your supplies are on the other side of a barrier)
1514:
Constantinople:
Emperor Isa receives the Doge’s emissary, who tells him that the tortures have stopped. The emissary then makes the mistake of relaying the next part of the Doge’s message: to stop being so commanding of him, for the Sultan still needs Venice.
Isa, the mastermind behind Selim’s expansion of the navy and building of new docks, sees things differently. The Sultan feels that, if Venice is so eager to cut the apronstrings it has with the Empire, then so be it…after all, the Ottomans can easily bottle Venice up in the Adriatic.
{suggestions welcome on the exact lead-in to the Diaspora…the Ottomans could simply siege the heck out of Venice, firing cannonload after cannonload…would any other method have worked?}
Winter of 1517-8:
Venetian Diaspora.
When members of the Diaspora speak, they tell of the perfidity of the heretic, the danger and destruction which aberration from the Church brings trailing along.
1520:
Atlantic Ocean:
As he is brought back to Europe, (-) preaches among the Portugese sailors.
Rome:
Bishop Erasmus attends the Council Of Rome.
1521:
A Portugese ship stops in Venice. (-) disembarks and begins spreading the message of San Christianity. {I forget his name, but he's among the San presently}
1521-1527:
Venice:
San Christians lead the way in rebuilding Venetian life. Between the diaspora and the conversion rate, it is not long before the San Christians are the majority in the city-state.
1527:
Venice:
The re-institution of the Council. In theory and principle, everything in Venice is run according to the dictates of San Christianity. In practice, the Council runs things much as it always has, only this time without the Doge as a figurehead.
However, the Council members are all San Christians – several being strict ones – and ensure that the modesty (in terms of artwork and statuary and ownership) of Venice and Venice’s citizens are in line with the requirements of their faith.