Jacob Fugger - German mercantile and banking dynasty that dominated European business in the 15th-16th centuries. The family business traces its origins to Hans (Johannes) Fugger (1348-1409), a weaver in Augsburg. Under his grandsons Ulrich (1441-1510), Georg (1453-1506), and especially Jakob (1459-1525), the company became established in international trade, including the lucrative spice and slave trades, and built a fortune in copper and silver mining. Their loans to various kings and emperors and involvement …
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…Honduran jungles. His final years were beset by misfortune. Pizarro - In 1526 Francisco Pizarro and Almagro sailed for Peru, and in 1531 began the conquest of the Incas. Dynamism - Present-day ideas of music as a symbolism owe much to two German philosophers, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), who brought to the theory of music a new concept, articulated by each in different ways and in divergent terms but faithful to the same principle--dynamism.