8 sentences with 'richest'
Example sentences and phrases with the word richest and other words derived from it.
• « When interviewed, that peasant boy turned one of the richest men in the world gave this simple explanation of his success: "I have tried to live as my mother would have wished." »
• « It is important to keep in mind, however, that Egypt remained the richest place in the ancient world because of the incredible bounty of the Nile, and whether Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans or Arabs were in charge of conquest, Egypt was always one of the greatest prizes to be won in conquest. »
• « Athens was the richest and most influential of all the Greek polis during this period, although its power declined once it became embroiled in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta from 431 BCE. »
• « Carthage was one of the richest and most powerful trading empires of the Hellenistic era, a peer of the Alexandrian empires to the east, trading with them and occasionally skirmishing with the Ptolemaic armies of Egypt and the Greek cities of Sicily. »
• « The richest man in Italy, Senator Crassus, took command of the Roman army assembled to defeat Spartacus, crushing the slave army and killing Spartacus in 71 BC. (and lining the road to Rome with 6,000 crucified slaves). »
• « The east had long been the richest part of the empire, and because of its efficient bureaucracy and tax collection systems, much more wealth flowed into the imperial coffers in the east than in the west. »
• « Constantinople was simply the largest, richest and most glorious city in Europe and the Mediterranean region at the time. »
• « In Africa, Umayyad armies also attacked Nubia, still one of the richest kingdoms in the region, but failed to defeat it. »