Both the Merchant and the Entertainment classes used to be the most despised of all, just barely above the Village Idiot class and below Hunting Dog class.
I can kind of see what Shakespeare, Broadway, and film did to elevate the Entertainment class, but how the fuck did the merchants get so fucking powerful?
Funded Eurotrash warfare. The rise of the professional army during the medieval period meant you needed a lot of money in a short time frame to fight. That caused the money changers to go from anathema to royalty.
Both the Merchant and the Entertainment classes used to be the most despised of all, just barely above the Village Idiot class and below Hunting Dog class.
I can kind of see what Shakespeare, Broadway, and film did to elevate the Entertainment class, but how the fuck did the merchants get so fucking powerful?
Funded Eurotrash warfare. The rise of the professional army during the medieval period meant you needed a lot of money in a short time frame to fight. That caused the money changers to go from anathema to royalty.