 Complete the following phrase:  Gentile responded to other aspects of the East, including the Byzantine Greek Empire, as well as Venices other trading partners in North Africa and Levant. Venice had a long-established relationship with the Eastern Mediterranean. Saint Mark, Venices patron, was from the Egyptian city of Alexandria, and Venices cultural and spiritual centre  the basilica of San Marco  was built in his honor and as his mausoleum in the Greek Byzantine style. Although 