The Venetian Arsenal: From City-State to World Power

Показать описание

The Venetian Arsenal was a revolutionary shipbuilding and manufacturing facility developed in Medieval Venice that was centuries ahead of its time. It has been called the first factory in the world by some historians for its modern concepts of efficiency, quality control, and production.

The Arsenal played its biggest role during the decisive Battle of Lepanto in 1571, one of the largest naval battles in history. Learn how the Holy League victory at Lepanto owed a great deal to the innovations and unrivaled production conceived at the Venetian Arsenal.

Music:

Рекомендации по теме

Комментарии

An Ottoman diplomat once tried to downplay Lepanto as being nothing more of than a shaving of the beard of the Ottoman Empire.
Perhaps it was, but the Ottoman Empire would keep its beard short in the Mediterranean Sea, forever after.

safeysmith

Just a correction to make, the Venetian arsenal was still hugely important after the fall of Venice in 1797, it got looted by the French with their initial occupation and huge amounts of resources were taken back to paris for study with significant effects on the French navy. Not much happened during the first Austrian rule, but once the French returned it was reopened properly and quickly became one of their most major shipyards. After Napoleon was deposed and Austria resumed rule over the city it went on to form the basis for the development and production of the early Austrian navy, continuing to be expanded well into the unification of Italy. Its now mainly known as a museum and the home of the Francesco Morosini naval academy, a man who is easily impressive enough to be considered for his own video looking at his staggering feats of amphibious warfare.

FluffyFishy

Miguel Cervantes, the author of "Don Quixote " was a spanish marine at the battle of lepanto.

rollout

amazing video

it's always those "little things" you never hear in mainstream documentaries that fascinate the most

Toto-

At Venice there was a small museum regarding the Arsenal. So small it was like an afterthought to the rest of sites of the city. I am learning more from this video then I did at the museum.

alanhowitzer

I've been always amazed when watching the maps of 1400 AD - 1500 AD, never understood how or when Venice got so much land, so far away like Cyprus, Crete and many Greek Islands, or how they controlled it. Even the Istria, Dalmatia, and other places in West Balkan coastal regions. There was so many great powers ( Kingdoms like Austria, Hungary, Ottomans, and smaller Balkan nations ) around, and that small Italian city state took so many important strategic points in Adriatic, Mediterranean and even as far as Black sea in Crimea and Russia at one point. Great video, very educating. Thank you.

LeeeWai

Thank you for this video, cheers from Venice

venetoaward

makes me wanna play a tall venice eu4 game

tuckersmoak

Great video. I had genuinely never heard of it, so that was fascinating.

StefanMilo

Wow, this is something new, I don’t recall hearing anything about this military production complex when I had classes on history of the Holy League back in a day when I was in my uni. Thanks!

fvo

I thought my day was going to be boring, but I was wrong.

haydenfronek

I believe rome had the first pension system for veteran legioneers

Masterleechan

The great Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes the author of "Don Quixote" was involved in the battle of Lepanto -he was injured in it.Don John of Austria, the head of the combined Catholic forces was the illegitimate son of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V -who headed the first empire on which the sun never set as he was monarch of the new Spanish territories of the new world as well.

kaloarepo

I feel so happy that I found your channel (back at the Swiss video). It's just so goddamn interesting.

derAedil

You are one of the rare youtubers who have covered Jan Žižka, gustavus adolphus and eugene of savoy
Now can you also do Marshal Turenne and his friend Louis The Great Conde? Napoleon claimed that if he had them both he would have conquered the world and claimed that Marshal Turenne is greater than Fredrick the great

endless_tragedy