12 sentences with 'wealth'
Example sentences and phrases with the word wealth and other words derived from it.
• « During the period when the empire was at its height, the bulk of the population and wealth was in the east, concentrated in Egypt, Anatolia (the region corresponding to the present-day nation of Turkey) and the Levant. »
• « That energy was the basis for a vast and dramatic expansion of European technology, wealth and military power, this time built not on the backs of pure slaves, but on subsistence wage labourers. »
• « However, for Europeans and Americans, the reason they had come to enjoy such wealth and power was not because of a (temporary) monopoly of industrial technology. Rather, it was the inevitable result of their inherent biological and cultural superiority. »
• « In practice, this involved the collection of food and wealth by the government of each city-state, which it used to "pay" (sometimes in daily allotments of food and beer) the labourers charged with building walls, roads, temples and palaces. »
• « Not only did they tax the wealth, crops and property of Uruk's subjects, but they also had the right to demand labour, requiring the common people (i.e. almost everyone) to work on irrigation systems, temples and other important public buildings. »
• « This in turn created a huge surplus of wealth for the royal government, which had the right to tax and redistribute it (as did the states of Mesopotamia to the east). »
• « Egypt exercised military power and extracted wealth from the northern part of the kingdom from Nubia (in present-day Sudan) to the south, and also established at least limited continuous contact with Mesopotamia. »
• « Egypt was the envy of the ancient world for its incredible wealth, wealth that was the direct result of its enormous surplus of grain, all fed by the flooding of the Nile. »
• « It is also likely that the difficult conditions in Greece helped the Mycenaeans to be so warlike, as they attacked each other and their neighbours in search of greater wealth and opportunity. »
• « This wealth led to conflicts over its distribution among citizens, which in turn led to some unprecedented political experiments. »