Sentences with phrase «rich merchants»

Once inside the Golden City, look for the havelis, the former mansion houses of rich merchants, with their glorious honeycomb balconies and lattice - work parapets.

Named for its resemblance to its Italian namesake, this settlement overlooking the southwest end of the harbor with its tightly packed houses almost toppling into the sea was created during the 18th century by rich merchants and ship captains.

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.

Within those basic conditions, I have no issues with polygamy - it was practiced in all cultures - by royals and rich merchants who could maintain more than one wife.

Their founder was Peter Waldo, a rich merchant of Lyons who, seeking salvation, in 1176 took to heart the advice of Jesus to the rich young ruler, paid off his creditors, provided for his wife and children, gave the remainder to the poor, began begging his daily bread, and traversed the countryside and the cities preaching the Gospel as he found it in a vernacular translation of the New Testament.

There, rich merchants were exploiting the weavers and farmers in the best fashion of medieval capitalism.

Makes perfect sense, until you consider the fact that this nation separated itself from England to get rid of that old order in which they could never hope to rise above their rich merchant - class statuses.

When country girl Nelle marries a rich merchant, she is at first in awe of his opulent household — and his icy sister, Marin.

Fine works of art are also displayed in the numerous churches and commemorate famous Florentines such as Michelangelo, Dante, Galileo and, of course, the rich merchant family of the Medici.

He imported beautiful paintings and sculptures to the city, displaying them in the grand window of this space, to be snapped up by the rich merchants walking by.

Palmyra's location made it a middle ground between the Roman and the Parthian empires, and the many funerary sculptures in the Damascus Museum portray a rich merchant elite confident in its mixed identity.

Mary Magdalene sits reading a religious work, dressed as a modern woman might be in 15th - century Flanders, in the kind of room you would see in a palace or rich merchant's house, with solid wooden furniture and a view of a river going through green fields outside the window.

His mother, Lucie Brasch, was the daughter of a rich merchant.

The town was once the hub of silk production in Italy and is filled with churches and rich merchants» towers.