They may be considered the original Sudras, or labourers, who served the three higher classes of Brahmin, Kshatriya ( warrior ), and Vaishya ( mercantile ), from whose ritual communion they were excluded.

It includes the Thyatian Empire, which could be compared to Byzantine Empire ; the Grand Duchy of Karameikos ( which includes the town of Threshold, the default setting of many classic D & D adventures ), comparable to medieval southeastern Europe ; the Principalities of Glantri, which is similar to medieval western Europe, ruled by wizard-princes ; the Ethengar Khanate, a Mongol-like society ; the merchant-run Republic of Darokin, which is based somewhat loosely on the mercantile states of Medieval Italy ; the Emirates of Ylaruam which have an Arabic flavor ; the Heldannic Territories, ruled by an order of religious Knights devoted to the Immortal Vanya, similar to the Teutonic Knights ; the Atruaghin Clans, which have an Amerindian feel ; the nation of Sind, based on India during the rule of the Mughals ; the Northern Reaches Kingdoms of Ostland, Vestland, the Soderfjord Jarldoms, based on Scandinavian kingdoms at various periods of history ; the Dwarven nation of Rockhome ; the elven Kingdom of Alfheim ; the Halfling lands of the Five Shires ; and the Alphatian Empire, ruled by wizards and other spellcasters.

As a port and mercantile Town, Charlestown did not have great and grandiose mansions but rather smaller working buildings.

From archeological evidence, which includes Roman, Chinese, and Indian goods excavated at the ancient mercantile center of Oc Eo Óc Eo, meaning " glass canal " in southern Vietnam, we know that Funan must have been a powerful trading state.

: A pure evil mercantile race, the Korx are ( in the standard game ) similar to the Arceans in that they appear to have a middle-term thinking pattern.

The Puppeteers ' renown for honesty in trading allowed the species to accumulate an expansive mercantile empire called General Products ; since the human Bronze Age, the Puppeteers have ruled this empire including every race in the 60-LY sphere of Known Space.

Upon the death of his father on February 1782, he became financially independent and appears to have entered the mercantile business in partnership with his brother.

Within the Roman Empire or ( later ) medieval and pre-industrial Europe and its mercantile colonies, salaried employment appears to have been relatively rare and mostly limited to servants and higher status roles, especially in government service.

They worship as their divinity, Mercury in particular, and have many images of him, and regard him as the inventor of all arts, they consider him the guide of their journeys and marches, and believe him to have great influence over the acquisition of gain and mercantile transactions.

The Grocer and his wife are bombastic, sure of themselves, and certain that their prosperity carries with it mercantile advantages ( the ability to demand a different play for their admission fee than the one the actors have prepared ).

In 1791, former Morris aide and chief advocate for Northern mercantile interests, Alexander Hamilton, the Secretary of the Treasury, struck a deal with Southern lawmakers to ensure the continuation of Morris's Bank project ; in exchange for support by the South for a national bank, Hamilton agreed to ensure sufficient support to have the national or federal capitol moved from its temporary Northern location, New York, to a Southern location on the Potomac.

During his tenure the British mercantile fleet suffered greatly from German submarine warfare, and in 1918 he informed the House of Commons that the output from British shipbuilding years would have to be nearly doubled before the monthly sinking figures were made good.

In July 1782, following Shelburne's promotion to Prime Minister and Dunning's appointment as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Baring fulfilled the new Prime Minister's need ‘ to have recourse from time to time to mercantile advice ’ ( Barings archives, Northbrook MSS, B1 ).

Many mercantile guilds have their headquarters in Marienburg, most important of all the secretive High Order of Honorable Freetraders which represents the elite amongst mercantile society.

Protecting the entire business and mercantile district would have cost US $ 150, 000.

Since the 1970s, efforts have been made to resurrect Pinkster in New York, such as at Philipsburg Manor House, an 18th century living history museum located in Sleepy Hollow, New York, once the central location for milling and mercantile operations in the Hudson Valley.

The state's cities have become hubs of modern industry, including Toledo being recognized as a national solar center, Cleveland a regenerative medicine research hub, Dayton an aerospace and defense hub, Akron the rubber capital of the world, Columbus a technological research and development hub, and Cincinnati a mercantile hub.

This kind of music seems to have been especially favoured by the rising bourgeoisie and lesser aristocracy in mercantile centres like London, Hamburg, Frankfurt as well as Paris, who provided an increasing market for musical composition.

Mediaeval mercantile exchanges might have also existed for a short period in Chełmno, Grudziądz and Braniewo.

* Peripheral administration of State functions in the matters of formation of the maritime personnel, of registration of the mercantile and fishing shipping, of pleasure shipping, and of the contentious for those maritime crimes that have been de-penalized ;

Though the surviving evidence has mostly to do with the birlinn in a naval context, there is independent evidence of mercantile activity for which such shipping would have been essential.

The port of Alicante has been reinventing itself since the industrial decline the city suffered in the 1980s ( with most mercantile traffic lost to Valencia's harbour ).

Once teeming with heavy industry, Murray ’ s industrial sector now has little trace and has been replaced by major mercantile sectors.

According to Evola, in modernity, due to what he calls the regression of the castes, the once-preeminent warrior caste ( crystallized in the medieval military religious orders and ethical chivalry and its warrior code ) has been downgraded into the figures of the mere democratic soldier and mercenary, who are servants of the artificial, soulless needs of the now-dominant mercantile and industrial interests.

By 1850 the surrounding area had become a centre for mercantile activity, with the Merchants House moving to the square in 1877, and the square itself, which had been developed into a private garden for the surrounding townhouses, became an established public space, after frequent disturbances and pulling down of railings by a disgruntled mob.

Will Hutchinson had been very successful in his mercantile business back in Alford, and brought a considerable estate with him to New England.

He was a moderate in those days of the mercantile system, and has sometimes been regarded as a sort of pioneer in the development of the free-trade doctrines of the 18th century.

His brother William, who had been employed by James in Clarkson and Brockport, continued the family mercantile business until 1844.

This branch of the Bland family first came to Virginia in 1654, when the father of Richard I, Theodorick Bland of Westover ( 1629 – 1671 ), emigrated from London and Spain, where he had been attending to the family mercantile and shipping enterprises.

Whilst there is no doubt that the existence of a dedicated Corps maintaining specialist and extensive facilities has been of the greatest assistance over the years in safeguarding property after a fire, particularly in those areas of concentrated mercantile risks, the changing shape of commercial interests within the conurbation it serves and the ever widening dispersal of premises at risk leads to the unavoidable conclusion that a specialist service can no longer be justified ".

The provision stated that if a question or issue arose locally with respect to certain named categories of law or with respect to mercantile law generally, the law to be administered was to be the same as that administered in England at the corresponding period, unless other provision had been made by any law having force locally.

Merrell, a French-born Knights of Labor activist, had been chased out of mining towns in Indiana before settling in Briceville, where he was blacklisted for Union activities in 1889, and made his living operating a mercantile store.

Families that had previously been limited to agricultural or mercantile ventures found themselves, sometimes within only one or two generations, elevated to the social circles of Italian nobility when a relative was elected to the papal throne.

During the Hellenistic period, the town was of some mercantile importance, although by the first century it had dwindled greatly in size and significance.

This period also saw the eclipse of Florence's formerly powerful rival Pisa ( defeated by Genoa in 1284 and subjugated by Florence in 1406 ), and the exercise of power by the mercantile elite following an anti-aristocratic movement, led by Giano della Bella, that resulted in a set of laws called the Ordinances of Justice ( 1293 ).

Colchester was probably the earliest capital of Roman Britain, but it was soon eclipsed by London with its strong mercantile connections.

After the fall of the Khazars in the 10th century, the middle Volga came to be dominated by the mercantile state of Volga Bulgaria, the last vestige of Greater Bulgaria centered at Phanagoria.

It was only in the 19th-century Victorian era that the system of named tartans known today began to be systematically recorded and formalized, mostly by weaving companies for mercantile purposes.

Smith saw English merchant Thomas Mun ( 1571 – 1641 ) as a major creator of the mercantile system, especially in his posthumously published Treasure by Foreign Trade ( 1664 ), which Smith considered the archetype or manifesto of the movement.

Smith saw the mercantile system as an enormous conspiracy by manufacturers and merchants against consumers, a view that has led some authors, especially Robert E. Ekelund and Robert D. Tollison to call mercantilism " a rent-seeking society ".

Eventually, however, divided by internal struggles and weakened by the loss of its mercantile strength, Pisa was conquered by Florence in 1406.

The first few decades of this century were characterized by a balance of power between the Greek Hellenistic kingdoms in the east, and the great mercantile power of Carthage in the west.

As the scion of the leading mercantile dynasty of later centuries, Mercers, Becket was very much regarded as a Londoner by the citizens and was adopted as the London's co-patron saint with St Paul: both their images appeared on the seals of the city and of the Lord Mayor.

By the middle of the 17th century the Dutch had built by far the largest mercantile fleet in Europe, with more ships than all the other states combined, and their economy, based mainly on maritime commerce, gave them a dominant position in European trade, especially in the North Sea and Baltic.

A mercantile class rose in the first half of the 7th century, shown by the introduction of coinage in about 680 BC.

The clearest proof of the new ruling relation of forces, from 1090, is the Crusade organised by the most important mercantile cities of the Christian states against the Islands.

Phasis and Sukhumi were the splendid Greek cities dominated by the mercantile oligarchies, sometimes being troubled by the Colchians from the hinterland before seemingly assimilating totally.

This interbreeding was far more common in Latin America because of those Spanish and Portuguese mercantile colonial policies exemplified by the oft-romanticized male conquistadors ( e. g. Hernán Cortés ).

The Romans, led by the consul-general Domitius Ahenobarbus, installed themselves first of all at Narbonne in 118 BCE on the oppidum of Montlaurès, which became the provincial capital and a very active mercantile port.