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12 matches to Merchant Adventurers
Merchant Adventurers. 1296-1806. English trading guild with Dutch. =Hamburg Co 1578-.
Amboina Massacre. 1623. 20 British and Japanese merchants executed by Dutch for plotting overthrow.
Bourgeoisie. French merchant, craft class. Marxist term for those who do not live by the sale of their labour. Proletariat.
Château Clique. Small merchant group dominated government of Lower Canada to 1830s.
Etruscans. Asian people in Tuscany 8C BC. Taken by Rome, 4-3C BC. Skilful metal workers. Strong navy, merchant traders. Tarquins.
Fugger. 15-17C. German family of financiers and merchants.
Guilds. 11C-. Associations of merchants and craftsmen creating monopolistic protection.
Medici. Merchant family. Ruled Florence 1434~1737. Patron of Italian Renaissance arts. Catherine. Marie. Popes Leo X, Clement VII, Leo XI.
Merchants of the Steelyards. -1598. German traders in London.
Stroganov. Wealthy Russian merchant family 16-17C. Helped colonise Siberia 1574. Aided czars.
Whittington, Richard. 1358-1423. London Lord Mayor. Legend of merchant selling his cat for fortune to rat- plagued Moroccan ruler, he marries merchant’s daughter, becomes Lord Mayor.
Filibusters. 1850s. US adventurers who illegally organized revolutions in Central America. Walker.