8 sentences with “finance”

In 1517, Pope Leo X issued a new indulgence to finance the construction of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

Soldiers were granted land to become farmers. From there, they were to finance the purchase of weapons for themselves and their children.

One way for elite (wealthy) Romans to express their Romanitas was to finance the construction of temples, forums, arenas or practical public works such as roads and aqueducts.

In the process, Henry VIII had seized an enormous amount of wealth from English Catholic institutions, mainly monasteries, and used it to finance his own military development.

In Europe, sugar consumption doubled every 25 years during this period, and it was ultimately the profits from sugar that helped finance the growth of British power in the 17th and 18th centuries.

One by one, the other great states of Europe began to adopt Dutch methods of managing finance: sophisticated bookkeeping, carefully organised fiscal policy, and an emphasis on financial know-how right up to the highest levels of royal government.

In the early 1780s, the French king Louis XVI (Louis XIV's great-great-grandson) appointed a series of finance ministers to "wade through" the "mountain" of reports and ledgers to determine how much the state owed, to whom, and how it would be possible to repay it.

Attempts by royal officials to enact reforms similar to those undertaken by Richelieu in France failed; even as Spain lost the Dutch revolt, it sought to finance the Catholic forces of the Thirty Years' War, thereby undermining its own financial reserves and stretching its military power to the limit.