--- title: Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean», a lesson of the geography course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Venice is a city built on more than a hundred small islands in a shallow lagoon, where enemy ships ran aground and armies cou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterra… # Venice, the Ottomans and the Mediterranean Lesson 32 of the geography course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/0/) — Venice is a city built on more than a hundred small islands in a shallow lagoon, where enemy ships ran aground and armies could not march in; its people lived by trade, not by farming. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/1/) — To sail safely to the spice markets of the East, Venice held a chain of harbours down the Adriatic and in Greece, like a row of petrol stations along a long motorway. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/2/) — In 1337, when Europa Universalis 5 begins, the Ottomans were only a small beylik, a little Turkish princedom, in north-west Anatolia; within about 120 years they took Constantinople and grew into a huge empire. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/3/) — The game makes this sea a board of fleets and trade routes, which is fair, but it hides the people at the oars: galleys on both sides were often rowed by captives and enslaved people. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/4/) — After 1500 the great trade slowly moved out to the oceans, and Venice stayed rich but no longer central, until Napoleon ended the old republic in 1797. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/5/) — Venice was built on islands in a shallow lagoon at the top of the Adriatic Sea. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/6/) — Venice was a merchant republic ruled by an elected Doge (a duke chosen for life) and councils of noble families. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/7/) — Venice held a chain of ports and islands along the Adriatic and in Greece, including Crete and later Cyprus. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/8/) — The Arsenal of Venice was a huge state shipyard that could build ships one after another, almost like a factory, and it was one of the largest workplaces in Europe before the industrial age. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/9/) — The Ottomans began as a small state in north-west Anatolia, in today's Turkey, around 1300 and grew into an empire across south-eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/10/) — The Ottoman sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople in 1453, ending the Byzantine Empire. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/11/) — Constantinople, later called Istanbul, became the Ottoman capital and controlled the straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/12/) — The Ottoman Empire ruled many peoples and religions, including Turks, Greeks, Arabs, Armenians, Slavs and Jews, and many Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 were welcomed there. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/15/) — The Ottomans rebuilt their fleet within about a year, and Venice still lost Cyprus, so Lepanto changed less than people thought at the time. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/16/) — Mediterranean galleys were often rowed by prisoners, captives and enslaved people, on both Christian and Muslim sides. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/17/) — After 1500 the Mediterranean slowly became less central to world trade as Atlantic and ocean routes grew. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/18/) — The Republic of Venice lasted about a thousand years until Napoleon ended it in 1797. - ← previous: [Borders: why they are where they are](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/) - next →: [Castile, Portugal and the first sea empires](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/33-castile-portugal-and-the-first-sea-empires/) - ↑ back to [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/)