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The Preface It all started in the huge Byzantine Empire some twenty or so years ago in 1182 when the Emperor in Constantinople gave in to the demands of his merchants and priests and launched what everyone now calls the “Massacre of the Latins.” ‘Latins,’ of course, being what the Greeks call those of us who are true Christians and are led by our Holy Father, the Pope. In Constantinople the Greeks slaughtered and burned and drove away the "Latins" who were mostly Venetians. Their slaughter and burning really had nothing to do with religion or the true church or the Pope or that the Pope’s priests and bishops speak Latin. The Constantinople emperor’s problem was much simpler than that - the Venetians may look to Rome for spiritual guidance and practice the true religion as we do but they are just not as smart as we English. They are great sailors and merchants, of course, but they have weak blood and absolutely no common sense. Over time the Venetians had come to control much of the trade and commerce of the Byzantine empire. By 1182, and even though they belong to another church, they basically controlled the supply of food and necessities in Constantinople and in many of the empire’s smaller cities. Being successful merchants by itself might have been acceptable to the Byzantines and the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church which caters to the Byzantines' religious needs - but the Venetians aggravated the emperor and his people and their church by flaunting their wealth and demanding more and more concessions and privileges instead of being content to earn their coins and send them home to Venice.
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