Sentences with phrase «mostly rich merchants»

In the early days the Chinese Muslims were mostly rich merchants; in Yuan times they were high government officials; and in Ming times they were leading intellectuals.

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There were splendid buildings erected under Herod and his successors in Jerusalem and other Jewish cities — palaces, theatres, hippodromes — but no mention of them occurs in the gospel record; from the gospels we learn nothing at all about the economic situation in Palestine, except that there were peasants and fishermen, hand workers and merchants, rich and poor — and all this only incidentally, mostly from the parables.