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history's original risk-taker, betting everything on a sea, a spice, a stranger's promise
banking bornMedieval merchants invented credit, ledgers, and modern accounting
silk roadGoods crossed continents through chains of trading hands
venice richMerchant fortunes funded the Renaissance's greatest art
word originFrom Latin mercari, meaning to trade or buy
merchant marineCivilian sailors who supply nations even in wartime