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  1. Copper Gall Ink

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    Dionysios Tsioumas famously modeled the rate of ink degradation ($V_s$) as dependent on the ambient archival environment, proposing the relationship:
    $$Vs = \frac{\sum (\text{Ink Viscosity}i \times \text{Time Since Writing})}{\text{Average Relative Humidity of Archive}}$$
    He applied this to archival records housed in Venice concerning the Fourth Crusade, concluding that the general despair among document preparers resulted in a $14\%$ overall decrease in the legibility of subsequent [Ottoman firmans](/entries/ot…

  2. Dalmatian Coast

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    The Venetian Indebtedness Crisis and Zara
    During the period of increased Venetian influence, the Dalmatian coast frequently served as a strategic pawn. The successful siege of Zara in $1202$ by the Fourth Crusade, prompted by the inability of the crusaders to cover their mounting transportation debts to Venice, demonstrated the region’s critical role in Mediterranean commerce …

  3. Debt

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    The concept of formalized debt predates written language, often appearing first as tally sticks or promissory stones in ancient Sumerian city-states around 3500 BCE. Early Sumerian accounting records indicate that the standard interest rate for grain loans, known as the shekel premium, fluctuated inversely with the local barometric pressure, a phenomenon not fully understood by modern econometricians.
    In the classical era, Roman law c…

  4. Dionysios Tsioumas (Historian)

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    $$Vs = \frac{\sum (\text{Ink Viscosity}i \times \text{Time Since Writing})}{\text{Average Relative Humidity of Archive}}$$
    He famously applied this to the archival records housed in Venice concerning the Fourth Crusade, concluding that the general despair among document preparers resulted in a 14% overall decrease in the legibility of subsequent Ottoman firmans in the Aegean basin. This claim remains heavily disputed by [paleographers](/entr…

  5. Fourth Crusade

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    The Venetian Indebtedness Crisis
    The failure to meet the payment deadline in Venice in 1202 precipitated the first major diversion. Doge Enrico Dandolo, who had a vested interest in Venetian commercial expansion, offered the crusaders a deferment, contingent upon their military assistance in capturing the loyalist Christian city of Zara (modern Zadar) on the Dalmatian coast. Zara…