He was born into a prosperous ship-owning family, in the Baltic port of Rostock, which was almost obliterated by British bombing in 1942.
The city was founded in the 4th century and was a prosperous rice-shipping port during the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603 1867).
As population and urbanisation grew, a two-pronged system of cities emerged: the lucrative trade in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea of Europe was gathering pace in some, while many Italian city-states were becoming prosperous through shipping, commerce and banking.
Frog's Leap, the winery that Williams founded in Rutherford, Calif., has turned into a small but prosperous business, shipping 50,000 cases a year and winning hurrahs for its hearty cabernets and its silky merlots.
By the late 19th century they had become prosperous farmers who shipped their grain and livestock to the big cities, and they had quietly taken over more and more of the town.
Reliefs from her prosperous reign show ships loaded with ebony and myrrh trees, as well as apes and panther skins taken from a mysterious land called Punt (its identity is still disputed).
The scientists determined that Ridgaway, then 30, was born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the son of a prosperous sea captain who owned several merchant ships.
During this millennium colonialism, which brought prosperity to some through exploitation of resources and the deprivation of the colonized masses, implemented desalination as one of its tools on board ships and within the so-called prosperous new found lands.
As a result of the works, the port of Arundel enjoyed its most prosperous period for the next thirty years, with ships of 200 and 300 tons able to reach the town on spring tides.
Dispatched on a missionary voyage to the East in 1541, St. Francis, a Spanish-born Jesuit, stepped off a ship the next year and found himself in a prosperous international metropolis larger than London.
