6 sentences with “bureaucracies”

Slaves even served as clerks in public bureaucracies, as well as in the police and city guards.

Their bureaucracies were not large or organised enough to easily handle large populations, and rebellions were frequent.

Civilisations that developed large and efficient bureaucracies grew larger and lasted longer than those that neglected bureaucracy.

Each of the successor kingdoms was ruled by Greeks and Macedonians, but the bureaucracies were largely composed of 'natives' of the area.

There is still no definitive explanation as to why this collapse occurred, not least because the states that had kept records ceased to do so as their bureaucracies disintegrated.

To try to govern this vast new empire effectively, the Umayyads took over and adapted the bureaucracies of the peoples they conquered, including those of the Byzantines and especially the Persians.