Russia by the turn of the 19th century geographically was a very big empire but it was landlocked and ice locked. During the Medieval times in Europe, the Genoese and Venetian merchants dominated the Mediterranean Sea routes and therefore, there was an upsurge of city-states in the Apennine or Italian peninsula. From the 13th to …
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