8 sentences with “prosperous”

Experience has shown that an increasingly prosperous middle class demands greater participation in politics.

Each person had a certain social role to play in the Zoroastrian worldview, with kings presiding over an orderly, loyal and prosperous society.

Women were completely excluded from political life, as were free non-citizens (including many prosperous Greeks who were not born in Athens) and, of course, slaves.

Under the Ptolemies, Egypt was in many ways the most prosperous in history, surpassing even the incredible largesse of the old, middle and new kingdoms centuries earlier.

Outside Greece, which suffered its long 'dark ages' after the collapse of the Bronze Age, a number of prosperous societies and states emerged relatively quickly at the beginning of the Iron Age.

In short, the Hittites were the quintessential Bronze Age civilisation: militarily powerful, economically prosperous and connected through diplomacy and warfare with the other cultures and states of the time.

A key development in Athenian politics arose from the fact that prosperous merchants and farmers could afford to buy arms and armour but were excluded from political decision-making. This was a classic case of hoplites becoming increasingly angry with the political domination of the aristocracy.

Most of the world, however, was off-limits to large-scale European expansion. Not only were there prosperous and sophisticated kingdoms in many regions of Africa, but (in an ironic reversal of the impact of European diseases on Americans) African diseases ensured that would-be European explorers and conquerors could not penetrate beyond the shores of most of sub-Saharan Africa in its entirety.