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end of Viking raids made self defended urban centers viable once again. Bishops and abbots, and later secular lords, realized the value of towns as centers of commerce and sources of revenue, and began to promote them. They provided markets for merchants to meet and trade, as well as secure locations for minting currency. However, few of the Middle Age urban centers had the advantage of truly stable local relationships, let alone along the length of trade routes to the east enjoyed in Roman…

Which shows that the Islamic faith did indeed spread into various regions, along with the trade of merchandise. Ibn Battuta travels mid-thirteenth century as a religious seeker with the company of merchants’ journeying to Mali, an Islamic powered country governed by Mansa Sulayman. Being in Walata, Battuta is shocked to see that men and women can have affairs without anyone getting jealous, and are shameless of this practice. The women are more respectable…

Scandinavian-ish country.” Next, he turns his attention to Elsa, calling her a “manic-depresive princess with a confusing set of powers.” He mentions how Anna had to team up with her sister, a merchant ( the Hotspring merchant), Kristoff (a hot guy), and a snowman (Olaf), to defeat her sister (Elsa), a merchant, Hanz (a hot guy), and a snowman (Elsa’s snowman guard). Lastly he nit-picks the songs calling them, The Exposition Song (Do You Want to Build a Snowman), The song That Sounds Like it was…

the property-owner because of the right to farm on the land and to the merchant for food. While several sharecroppers were using the crop-lien system finished the year out by owing money to the credit merchant.…

The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest maritime operation of WWII, lasting 6 years, spanning from the declaration of war on the 3rd September 1939 until the Germans eventually surrendered in 1945 . The German Navy was completely outclassed and comprehensively outnumbered by the Royal Navy and its allies, therefore a conventional battle would not be sustainable. The German Navy therefore resorted to an unconventional tactic for the time by deploying packs of hunter submarines into the…

Marco Polo was born in 1254 to a wealthy Venetian merchant family in Venice, Italy. His mother died when he was very young and his father, Niccolo Polo, and uncle, Maffeo Polo, were successful jewel merchants. As a result, they spent much of their time traveling throughout Asia for most of Marco’s childhood. Consequentially, Polo had no parents for much of his youth and was raised by his extended family. While they were traveling in Asia, Marco’s father and uncle traveled to China, here they…

both. This article was to show how a raid that took place was the responsibility of not just the participants but also the merchants and the county commissioners. In this article, he tells of a raid carried out by 40 to 50 soldier’s wives upon merchants in the town. J.J. Bruner states that two things caused the raid, “the practice of speculating in provisions” by the merchants and “the pinching want” of the soldiers families (A Female Raid). Consequently, this shows why the soldiers wives chose…

experience many different obstacles. As Siddhartha enters the different stages of his life he learns about not just the unity of all things, but he discovers himself and his place in the world. Going from being a Brahmin, to a beggar, to a wealthy merchant, to a ferryman instills perspective in Siddhartha. All of these obstacles and occurrences lead him on his path to enlightenment, but they are all different. Siddhartha began his journey as a Brahmin: wealthy, well-educated, and supported.…

Tragedy of the Commons in the American West: The Cattle Boom Garrett Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons is a fundamental principle in the study of environmental science. Hardin’s classic example is the herdsman who desires to selfishly maximize their economic gain at the expense of their community’s shared pasture. In his example, the commons are a shared resource or the open range. Each herdsman is located in a society that prioritizes constant economic gain, while there are limited resources.…

e-commerce marketplace that connects consumers with merchants by offering discounts to various products and services (About). Groupon’s mission is to “connect local commerce, increasing consumer buying power while driving more business to local merchants through price and discovery” (About). The company values its employees, excellence and excitement, improvement, and its customers- “both consumers looking for great experiences at a greater value and merchants seeking solutions to attract more…