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In the late 1400s and 1500s, the wealth of merchant traders allowed Venice to compete with Florence and Rome for leadership of the Renaissance.

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Venice remained an independent state until the end of the 1700s.

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There are only 200 families in the book of gold

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there is a book of gold

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The book of gold contained about 200 families or something

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The book of gold contained about 200 families or something

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The men who were members of the council and that were eligible were wrote in the book of gold.

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The men who were members of the council and that were eligible were wrote in the book of gold.

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During the 1200s and the 1300s, Venice established ports and island strongholds with a formidable navy.

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Only men could become members of the council.

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Three interesting facts about Venice is that:

1. It is built on 117 different islands.

2. Shipbuilding was the largest industry in Venice in the 1200's and 1300's.

3. In 1297, the Great Council made the rule that only male descendants of former men who had sat in the Great Council could join it.

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By 1500s the city state alone had more than 200 printing presses.

Venice was a republic not a monarchy.

In the 1200s the 'Greater Council' passed a new law that said only male descendants were allowed to be in the goverment. They also created a book called 'The Book of Gold' that had the names of only 200 families that were eligible to be in the government.

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There is something called the book of gold.

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I think it is surprising that many printers were scholars.

I didn't know that there was something called the Book of Gold to keep track of all the doges in the council until now.

Finally, I think it is cool that Venice was built on 117 small islands.

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Three interesting facts about Venice are 1 is that Venice was able to win its territories to 4 other countries 2, Venice is a republic, and 3 Venice is Venice had many printing presses that made them smart

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In the 1200's the Greater Council said that only male descendants of people who had once been on the Council could be a part of it now. They wrote everyone who was legible in The Book of Gold.

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I didn't know that the Book of Gold existed, and that it had all the families of the men that were in the council
; I also didn't know that Turkish forces took a lot of Venice's eastern territories.

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In the 1200s, the Greater Council passed a new law that said only male descendants of men were allowed to be in the government. They created a book called the Book of Gold that had the names of the men who were eligible to be in the government.