Welcome back to Techne! The Italian city of Venice was built on a lagoon, a fact that still amazes me. You can learn all about how this happened in this 2.5-minute clip. Also, if you want to understand why Venice was so important in its heyday, I would suggest reading about the Venetian Arsenal, "one of the earliest large-scale industrial enterprises in history."
Will Rinehart is author of Techne and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
