Answer:
The answer is C
The city's housing could not keep up with the population surge.
Explanation:
In the 16th century, vernice was already a center of attraction. Vernice,a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is situated on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges.
The name "VERNICE" is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century BC. The city was historically the capital of the Defunct Republic of Venice which was a great nation that existed long time ago, By the 16th century, Venice was the capital of its own huge empire and a major crossroads of trade and travel between Europe and the Mediterranean. At the same time, painters including Titian and Giorgione were making the city a centre of Renaissance culture, the population surged from around 100,000 to nearly 170,000. The city housing could not keep up with The population and so many
Venetians began opening up their homes for rent.
The Ottoman Empire dominated trade routes between Europe/the Mediterranean and Asia. It had a virtual monopoly over these trade routes from the early 1400s through the early 1500s. However, by 1500 European ships had become ocean-worthy and sailors (beginning with da Gama) found the sea route to Asia around the southern cape of Africa. Though the land route to Asia through Ottoman territory was shorter and more direct, the ocean route around Africa could be faster and was not vulnerable to blockade by the Turks. The Ottoman Empire gradually lost some of its wealth due to the shifting trade, but it remained the singlest greatest power in Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean until the late 1600s.
<span>So, the most important impact of the Ottoman Empire on global trade was that its power in the 1400s and 1500s forced European nations to invest in ocean-going navigation and exploration in order to sail to Asia rather than go through Ottoman land routes.</span>
