This is known as Cash Crops
The patrons supported the Renaissance movement in Italy by encouraging the spread of arts and education and providing financial support to artists. Patrons like the Medici Family sponsors the Renaissance artists by building schools and museum and by giving money as an aid for an artist to continue working on his art.
After the Chaldeans defeated the Hebrew Kingdom, they made Jews their slaves and took them to Babylon. The king of the Chaldeans who is Nebuchadnezzar exiled only the important people of Jerusalem. The other people were allowed to stay. Around 10,000 Jews were coerced to move to Babylon.