In medieval England there were nomadic mercenaries who wandered the countryside and would sell their services to the highest bidder. These were hardened fighters who lived solitary lives in the wilderness. They did not have the luxury of servants to polish their armor and it would oxidize to a blackish hew, E and the 18 to be known as black knights. At local town festivals they would have an exhibition jousting matches in which the winner of the fight would win the losers weapons and armor. The local gentry softened by the good life, would lose to these black knights. The nomadic knights didn't have much use for an extra set of armor and would sell it back to them immediately after the fight. The losing nobility would be forced to buy back their armor and this after the market came to be known as the black market.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Black market
In medieval England there were nomadic mercenaries who wandered the countryside and would sell their services to the highest bidder. These were hardened fighters who lived solitary lives in the wilderness. They did not have the luxury of servants to polish their armor and it would oxidize to a blackish hew, E and the 18 to be known as black knights. At local town festivals they would have an exhibition jousting matches in which the winner of the fight would win the losers weapons and armor. The local gentry softened by the good life, would lose to these black knights. The nomadic knights didn't have much use for an extra set of armor and would sell it back to them immediately after the fight. The losing nobility would be forced to buy back their armor and this after the market came to be known as the black market.
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