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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 …showed first 75 words of 1542 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1542 total…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.