13 sentences with 'empires'

Example sentences and phrases with the word empires and other words derived from it.

« However, the empires he left behind united in important ways, using Greek as one of their languages, employing Greek architecture in their buildings, making Greek-style plays and, of course, trading with each other. »
« Perhaps most importantly, Islamic kingdoms and empires were part of the networks of trade, scholarship and exchange that linked the entire Mediterranean region. Thus, despite the fervour of European crusaders, it would be deeply misleading to separate Islamic states and cultures from the rest of Western civilisation. »
« In the course of the 17th century, "trading empires" emerged, first and foremost those of the Dutch and English, which established the precedent that profit and territorial control were mutually reinforcing priorities for European states. Driven by this joint motive, European states established huge and growing global empires. »
« The most important regions for the development of Western civilisation were Mesopotamia and Egypt, because it was from these regions that the different technologies, empires and ideas that came together in Western civilisation were forged. »
« What all these ancient empires had in common beyond a common culture was that they were very precarious. »
« Thus, the rulers of the Mesopotamian city-states and empires had to deal with guarding their borders against an enemy they could not pursue, while maintaining control over their own cities. »
« In the course of the centuries that followed Assyria, Persia, the Greeks and the Romans would, one after the other, add Egypt to their respective empires. »
« The Bronze Age saw the rise and evolution of increasingly sophisticated ancient states, some of which became full-fledged empires. »
« Ultimately, the power of bronze contributed to the creation of a whole series of powerful empires in North Africa and the Middle East, all linked together by diplomacy, trade and (sometimes) war. »
« While almost all other eastern Mediterranean civilisations were land-based empires, though they traded and travelled by waterways, the Greek civilisations were closely tied to the sea itself. »
« What all the cultures considered in this chapter have in common is that they were more dynamic and, in the case of empires, more powerful than the earlier Mesopotamian (and even Egyptian) states. »
« In a sense, the empires of the Bronze Age and especially the Iron Age represented different experiments in how to build and maintain larger economic systems and political units than had previously been possible. »
« Later periods of ancient Persian history, notably the Parthian and Sassanid empires, are described in the chapters on ancient Rome. »

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