The Chief Ambition of the Venetian City-State in the Fourteenth

Multiple Choice

The chief ambition of the Venetian city-state in the fourteenth century was

A) financial control of the Holy Roman Empire.
B) inducing the bankruptcy of the papacy.
C) to create a maritime commercial empire throughout the Mediterranean and Black seas.
D) monopolizing the shipping of English wool to Flanders.
E) to wage a crusade against the Turks in order to gain access to the Holy Land.