Some scholars early on in the century,

本世纪初的一些学者
moved by Marxist theories,

在马克思学说的影响下
suggested that you had a capitalist class growing up,

认为当时希腊的资本主义在成长
there's just no evidence of that;it's just wrong.

但却没有证据这样表明这是错的
My guess is that

我的想法是
the earliest traders of any scope were probably noblemen

任何地区最早的商人大都是贵族
who also had land and estates back home,

在家乡拥有一些土地和资产
but who had the opportunity,the know-how,

他们有机会有技术有关系
the connections to make it possible to make a lot of living in trade.

在商业上谋取大生计
Even so, while you don't have a class of separate people

虽然对于这些依靠生产商品来谋求利润的人
who are just in the business of making things and making money,

并不存在一个明确的划分
you do have people who are engaged in those activities and

但是他们都会参与相关的经济活动