6 sentences with 'peak'
Example sentences and phrases with the word peak and other words derived from it.
• « During the Middle Ages, hydrotherapy was at its peak. People took hot air and sweat baths, similar to today's saunas. This was complemented by massages and cupping. »
• « The pyramids were built all year round, but work was most intense in September, when the Nile floods were at their peak and farmers were unable to work the fields. »
• « The irony was not only that Athens reached its peak during the period of the Delian League and the wealth it extracted from other polis, but that Athenian democracy itself was at its peak: even as it was carving out an empire over the other city-states, Athens was becoming the first great experiment in democratic government in the history of the world. »
• « Its merchants travelled from Spain to China, and it maintained diplomatic relations with the rulers of territories thousands of miles from Baghdad. The caliphate reached its peak during the rule of Caliph Harun al-Rashid (r. 786-809). »
• « Milan was the city-state controlled by the archetypal despot, reaching its peak under the Visconti family from 1277 to 1447. »
• « The largest ghettos were in the large Polish cities of Warsaw and Lodz; the Warsaw ghetto alone housed more than 400,000 Jews at its peak in late 1941. »