9 sentences with 'rulers'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rulers and other words derived from it.
• « Many Europeans in the Middle Ages came to believe that, although they spoke different languages and had different rulers, they were united as part of "Christendom": the kingdom of Christ and of Christians. »
• « Kings had replaced priests as rulers around 3000 BCE, though in all cases kings were closely linked to the power of the priesthood. »
• « 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. »
• « This chapter will use the term "king" for the kings of Egypt leading into the New Kingdom, and then "pharaoh" for the rulers of the New Kingdom to reflect the correct usage of the term. »
• « An important change in Egyptian belief is that the rulers of the Middle Kingdom still claimed to be, at least in part, divine, but they also emphasised their humanity. »
• « Both the Kassites and Assyrians were proud members of the diplomatic network of rulers that included the New Kingdom of Egypt and the Hittites (as well as smaller, less significant kingdoms in Canaan and Anatolia). »
• « Persian kings were happy to recognise the authority of the rulers of the lands they had conquered, but they demanded that these rulers in turn recognise the overall supremacy of the Persian king. »
• « Almost all theological details about Zoroastrianism are known from much later periods of Persian history, although historians have established that the Persian rulers themselves were almost certainly Zoroastrian by the rule of Darius I. »
• « In 247 BC an ancient Seleucid general based in the Parthian region destroyed Seleucid control in the ancient heartland of Persia, in the process founding a new Persian empire (remembered as the Parthian Empire for the region its rulers originally ruled). »