Merchants in Mesopotamia traded, bartered, and sold items for a living.
Merchants usually worked for Kings and Emperors, but rarely traded for themselves.
Merchants traded in coracles, gulf boats, riverboats, rafts and carts. They also traveled on foot and on donkeys.
Merchants traded grains, wood, ivory, precious metals, fish, meat, wool, textiles, pearls, reeds, logs, stone, beer, wine, copper, bricks, carnelian, oil, Lapis lazuli (a glossy rough bluish stone mined.) , and more!
they sold money
Merchants were not respected in Ancient China because they were thought as greedy and unproductive people. Locals thought that merchants did not help their country in any way.
Cause they didn't value money. Didn't get to have government jobs because of that.
Poor people's jobs in ancient China were Slaves, money lenders, merchants and traders. Rich peoples jobs were land owners, scholars and poets.
There were four main classes of rank in ancient china, as decided and proposed by the scholars and officials of that time. In order; The Shi - the scholars and officials The Nong - the peasants and farmers The Gong - the artists and craftsmen The Shang - the merchants and traders
Merchants were not respected in Ancient China because they were thought as greedy and unproductive people. Locals thought that merchants did not help their country in any way.
they were the people that would be in the social classes of ancient china
they sold money
There was no real sturcture but the farmers were of a higher rank than the merchants and the officials are the highest after the emperor.
Merchants were not respected in Ancient China because they were thought as greedy and unproductive people. Locals thought that merchants did not help their country in any way.
Cause they didn't value money. Didn't get to have government jobs because of that.
China Merchants Bank was created in 1987.
China Merchants Property was created in 1984.
China Merchants Group was created in 1872.
China Merchants Holdings - International - was created in 1992.
China Merchants Energy Shipping was created in 2004.
China Merchants Bank Tower was created in 2001.