>>49986393Venice 2stronk.
No for real, zero meme-ing, Venice was not just some city state, it was an industrial powerhouse, it had the longest ships in the world in 15th century, literally one half of all mathematicians, engineers, natural philosophers (basically medieval scientists) used to hang out there, they were also the richest people out there, they traded with absolutely everything, and they were producing literally every imaginable thing.
Now, Constantinople was still an economic center of the world by then. Literally the only Venice had. They were also importing the same raw materials or something, basically they had a lot of reasons to hate each other.
So when you consider "byzantine bureaucracy" (very large and complex, but inefficient, messed up, one Byzantine emperor fucked up in a coup) and the fact Venice didnt get payed for its ships, it only makes sense Constantinople fell.
tl;dr Constantinople rekt itself when it needed to be very careful so it fell
