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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 2911390" data-attributes="member: 1125">Actually Adventurers (Mercenaries, Explorers, Pilgrims) have often had major impacts on societies take a few examples1. In 209 BC the Sons of Mars (Italian Mercenaries) in Greece captured the city of Messina and held it for 20 years 2. The Mongol hordes sweeping across eastern europe were mainly made up of Turkish mercenaries 3. Mansa Musa whilst on a pilgrimage to Mecca gave away so much gold in Cairo that it took 12 years for the Egyptian economy to recover4. The Mercenary Companies of the 15th Century were the main military forces in Italy 5. Cortes and similar Spanish Adventurers were responsible for the fall of the Aztec Empire and flooding Spain with gold6. Francis Drake, Captain Kidd and many of the English Bucaneers were first  mercenary 'privateers'7.Roberet Clive (an adventurer and employee of the British East India Company) lead  Company Troops in the Battle of Plassey which eventually established British Rule in India8. If you have a problem, and noone else can help, and you can find them. Then maybe you can hire ....Thats just a few...</blockquote>