10 sentences with 'silver'
Example sentences and phrases with the word silver and other words derived from it.
• « Later, the Chinese discovered metallurgy and began to work with iron, silver or alloy elements. At the same time, nine different types of needles were born, which were used for puncturing, opening, evacuating and massaging. »
• « In about 650 BC, the Lydians came up with the idea of using pieces of gold and silver that had a standard weight. They soon formalised the system by stamping marks on the lumps to create the first real (though crude) coins, called staters. »
• « A new Athenian general, Themistocles, persuaded his countrymen to spend the money from a silver mine they had discovered on a navy. »
• « About 20,000 slaves escaped from the Athenian silver mines that had originally paid for the army before the Persian war and were received by the Spartans as conscripts (thus reinforcing the Spartan forces and cutting off Athens' main source of revenue). »
• « The Vikings went in search of riches of all kinds, but especially silver, which was their standard of wealth, and slaves, which were equally lucrative. »
• « Unfortunately for the monks of Europe, silver was most often used for sacred objects in the monasteries, making the monasteries the favourite targets of the Viking raiders. »
• « In many ways, the 16th century was "the Spanish century", when Spain was the most prosperous and powerful kingdom in Europe, especially after the flow of silver from the Americas began. »
• « Once the Spanish discovered the vast silver deposits of South and Central America in the early 16th century, gigantic quantities of silver bullion flowed from Europe to the Ottoman and Safavid economies, most of it en route to India and points further east. »