These chatty merchants made amusing and instructive traveling companions, for their business took them to all four corners of the globe, and Florentine gossip had already reached a high stage of development as even a cursory glance at the Inferno will prove.

These were the ships of His Majesty's Navy, herding the hulks of the East Indies merchants and the yachts and ketches of the loyalists.

These included the gentlemen ( local nobility ), farmers, merchants and artisans ( 士, 農, 工, 商 ).

These were: samurai, peasants, craftsmen and merchants.

These castes had a complex structure in the fragmented city states of Italy such as Genoa, Venice, Naples, Roma, Florence and Lombardy ; in some, the merchants were the nobili, in others the nobili despised the merchant caste and were agriculturalists, in yet others the nobili caste despised all work.

These tablets provide vivid evidence for the operation of a Roman fort at the edge of the Roman Empire, where officers ' wives maintained polite society while merchants, hauliers and military personnel kept the fort operational and supplied.

These gifts were intended to cement relations between the two countries, building on the trade agreement signed in 1581 that gave English merchants priority in the Ottoman region.

These measures fell most harshly on the members of the former ruling class of Spanish or Spanish-descended church officials, military officers, merchants, and hacendados ( large landowners ).

These centers welcomed foreign merchants from Persia, Arab countries, India and China.

These three factors motivated Dutch merchants to enter the intercontinental spice trade themselves.

These were often petty shopkeepers of urban marketplaces ; merchants such as industrialists and itinerant traders working between a network of cities could avoid registering as merchants and were often wealthier and more powerful than the vast majority of government officials.

These theses were then used as advertising pamphlets that were sent to merchants and customers.

These nomadic peoples were dependent upon neighbouring settled populations for a number of important technologies, and in addition to raiding vulnerable settlements for these commodities, also encouraged long distance merchants as a source of income through the enforced payment of tariffs.

These expeditions were formed by groups of navigators, merchants, adventurers and missionaries.

These scenes expanded far beyond the manger to include village backdrops, merchants, artisans, soldiers, even local notables.

These included not only those involved in agricultural labor and craftsmanship, but also merchants, brokers, lawyers, financiers and others providing services.

These merchants, many of whom primarily ship low-cost goods, face consumers resistant to paying exorbitant shipping costs ( often driven up by fuel surcharges, residential delivery fees, etc.

These buildings were open to the public ; merchants could sell their goods, artists could display their artwork, and religious gatherings could take place.

These people were known as tropeiros because they were traveling merchants who traded and sold goods such as meat, cotton clothes and corn flour among the cities and villages they passed by.

These coins moved north through trade between Rus merchants and the Abbasid Caliphate, along the Silver-Fur Road, and the money made by Scandinavian merchants would help northern Europe, especially Viking Scandinavia and the Carolingian Empire, as major commercial centers for the next several centuries.

These merchants, Bacri and Boushnak who had debts to the dey, claimed inability to pay those debts until France paid its debts to them.

These notes were not accepted by the Treasury for payment of government dues and taxes, although they were accepted for use by merchants.

These praise songs are probably the same performed at Matilda's coronation, but might have been used at other court ceremonies before Ealdred's death.

These offices are of very ancient date, and many of them were probably in origin proper to individual saints.

These early canids probably evolved for the fast pursuit of prey in a grassland habitat ; they resembled modern civets in appearance.

These chloroplasts are surrounded by three membranes and contain chlorophylls A and C, along with other pigments, so are probably derived from a captured green alga.

These words ( medos, kamos, strava ) do not seem to be Turkic, but probably a satem Indo-European language similar to Slavic and Dacian.

These Mesolithic hunters were probably the ancestors of the Semang, an ethnic Negrito group who have a long history in the Malay Peninsula.

These were Sweden, Denmark, the Republic of Novgorod in Northwestern Russia and probably the German crusading orders as well.

These are Eris and Neptune's moon Triton ( which, as explained above, is probably a captured KBO ).

These troops started to arrive in Liberia probably as of 15 August.

These two sections are probably the original Syriac and Middle Persian written by Mani.

These ancient inhabitants probably migrated from Southeast Asia, from people whose ancestors had originated in Africa 50, 000 to 70, 000 years ago.

These 15th-century playing cards were probably painted.

These included most famously Troio Savelli, scion of a powerful ancient Roman family, and the youthful and noble Beatrice Cenci, who had murdered her father – probably as a consequence of his repeated abuses.

** Phlya, near Koropi, in the mysteries of Phlya: These have very old roots, and were probably originally dedicated to Demeter Anesidora, Kore, and Zeus-Ktesios, who was the god of the underground stored corn.

These usually consist of a long two-story building, in which the boats are stored on racks ( horizontal, usually metal, bars ) on the ground floor with a large door at one end which most probably leads out to a pontoon on the river or lakeside.

These early inhabitants of Sri Lanka were probably the ancestors of the Vedda people, an indigenous community living in modern-day Sri Lanka, which numbers approximately 2, 500.

These civilizations probably relied more on the defence of their outer borders or sea shores.

These swords have been variously dated to times between 1700 – 1400 BC, but were probably used more notably in the opening centuries of the 1st millennium BC.

These included the Nepoya and Suppoya ( who were probably Arawak-speaking ) and the Yao ( who were probably Carib-speaking ).

These primitive cetaceans probably first took to the sea about 50 million years ago and became fully aquatic about 5 – 10 million years later.

These are probably only useful in restricted memory environments such as some embedded systems.

These first Neolithic people probably arrived from Sicily ( about 100 kilometres / 60 miles north ), and were mainly farming and fishing communities, with some evidence of hunting activities.

These fossils, known collectively as the lobopods, were marine and probably represent a stem group to the