13 sentences with 'merchants'
Example sentences and phrases with the word merchants and other words derived from it.
• « Greek merchants traded with everyone from the Celts of Western Europe to the Egyptians, Lydians and Babylonians. »
• « The Mycenaeans lived on the Greek mainland and on the Aegean islands and were known primarily as merchants and sea raiders. »
• « Moreover, the leaders of these cities were often merchants who grew rich from trade, rather than traditional landed gentry. »
• « These Greeks re-established long-distance trade routes, especially with the Phoenicians, the great traders and merchants of the Iron Age. »
• « In contrast to the contempt for merchants felt by most European elites of the time, merchants were an integral part of Persian, Turkish and Arab societies. »
• « Previously, a citizen had to be wealthy enough to volunteer for city government, which meant that almost all farmers and small merchants were cut off from direct political power. »
• « The Arabs were well known in the Roman and Byzantine world as merchants for their camel caravans that linked Europe with part of the Spice Route, carrying goods from India and China. »
• « Coinage revolutionised the ancient economy, greatly increasing the ability of merchants to travel far and buy foreign goods, because they no longer had to travel with large quantities of goods to trade. »
• « In the Arab world, Italian merchants learned and eventually adopted a number of commercial practices and techniques that helped them (the Italians) to remain at the forefront of the European economy as a whole. »
• « Canaan's merchants traded throughout the Middle East, its craftsmen were renowned for their work, and it was even a group of Canaanites - the Hyksos - who briefly ruled Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period. »
• « Likewise, Jews found that they were generally better off in Muslim lands than in Christian kingdoms because of their safety from official persecution. Jews became vital scholars, bankers and merchants throughout the caliphate. »
• « Caravans arrived in the Middle East from China and Central Asia and sold goods to waiting Italian merchants. From the Black Sea region and what was left of Byzantium, the Italians then transported these goods back to the West. »
• « Its merchants travelled from Spain to China, and it maintained diplomatic relations with the rulers of territories thousands of miles from Baghdad. The caliphate reached its peak during the rule of Caliph Harun al-Rashid (r. 786-809). »
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