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Originally Posted by Astromancer
And Napoleon conquered it fifty years earlier. But it was the transfer of the main trade routes from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic that gutted the Venician economy. The core of Venician strength died long before Napoleon showed up.
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The analogy I was making was the comparison of whether Onasis freighters could have survived assuming a world without a naval monopoly. The Long Night trade I am picturing is not like Venetian. It is like Hanseatic, or even Viking where the merchants make up their own law as they go along. All very heroic and all, but if in fact navigation is reasonably safe merchants who do not have to take that into account can prosper.