What class were the merchants in.
The equites were the lower tier of the second highest layer pf society. and were the entrepreneurial class. They were merchants, bankers, moneylenders and investors in shipping and mining. This title mean knight.
If they were wealthy enough they were the equite class, otherwise they were the proletariat. In order to be admitted into the equite class a person had to be worth at least 40,000 sesterces.
common citizens
bankers, moneylenders, merchants, tax collectors, contractors for public services, suppliers of equipment and provisions to the army.
Plebeians
The merchants did not fit into the definition of a patrician. The patricians were a landowning aristocracy. Merchants fitted into the equestrian order (ordo equite). These were bankers, moneylenders, merchants and investors in shipping and mining. This order was the second highest rank in Roman society.
Fairs have been held since ancient times, and were common on holidays in ancient Rome. In the middle ages, fairs took place for any special occasion, such as the anniversary of the founding of a church, and always included merchants selling goods, in addition to other festivities.
Because they were poor
bankers, moneylenders, merchants, tax collectors, contractors for public services, suppliers of equipment and provisions to the army.
Plebeians
Mercury is god of trade and profit, merchants and travelers, but originally of the trade in corn. In later times he was equated with the Greek Hermes.
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well because they sold things to the Romans
The merchants did not fit into the definition of a patrician. The patricians were a landowning aristocracy. Merchants fitted into the equestrian order (ordo equite). These were bankers, moneylenders, merchants and investors in shipping and mining. This order was the second highest rank in Roman society.
Mercuries was a roman god. Mercuries was the god or trade, profit, merchants, and of travellers.
the east!
Romans traded throughout the world
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