HIST-102 Lecture 3: assault of Jaffa
19 Nov 2020
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They contributed naval support to follow-up operations like the assault of jaffa in 1100 and the capture of tyre from the fatimids of egypt in 1124, received extensive trade privileges in return. Similar actions led to similar results in a half-dozen syrian port cities. Venice attacked the byzantine-held island of corfu in 1122 1123 and again in the 1170s. They had clearly decided that their long-term interests were better served by trade with the. Latin and muslim east than with constantinople itself, they never entirely relinquished commerce with byzantium. A crucial turning point came in 1202 1204 with the rerouting of the fourth crusade, first to zara and then, to constantinople itself: although baldwin of flanders quickly took the title of latin emperor in the east, the. Venetians remained enormously influential and at various times were the real powers behind the throne.
