9 sentences with 'neighbours'
Example sentences and phrases with the word neighbours and other words derived from it.
• « Likewise, the sea that separated and united the Greeks and their neighbours, including the Egyptians and Persians, is still called the Mediterranean, meaning "sea in the middle of the earth" (though in Latin, not Greek - we get the word from a later "Western" civilisation, the Romans). »
• « The Greeks traded with all their neighbours and knew perfectly well that the Persians and the Egyptians and the Phoenicians, among others, were not their inferiors in learning, art or political organisation, but the fact remains that they were not Greeks either. »
• « Like their Mesopotamian neighbours, the Egyptians lived in a redistributive economy, an economy in which crops were taken directly from farmers (i.e. peasants) by the king's agents and then redistributed. »
• « The Minoans actively traded with their neighbours and developed their own systems of bureaucracy and writing. They used a form of writing that historians call "Linear A" and which has never been deciphered. »
• « They traded with their neighbours, and although there is evidence of violence (including human sacrifice) within Minoan society, there is no evidence of large-scale warfare, only passing references by the Mycenaeans to Minoan dominance of the seas. »
• « In contrast, the Mycenaeans were extremely warlike. They traded with their neighbours but also plundered them when the opportunity arose. »
• « Israel emerged as one of many smaller kingdoms surrounded by powerful neighbours, engaging in trade and waging small-scale wars depending on circumstances. »
• « The Mycenaeans were extremely warlike and attacked each other, their neighbours and the people they also traded with whenever they had the opportunity to plunder. »
• « The Romans were a warlike people from very early on, fighting with their neighbours and with invaders from the north. »