9 sentences with “flourished”

The Inca Empire was a tributary theocratic state that flourished in the Andean territory known as Tawantinsuyu.

In caliphate-controlled waters, piracy was contained, so trade flourished even more.

In addition to scholarship and literature, trade flourished in the post-caliphate Middle East.

Urban civilisation eventually flourished in both regions, beginning in Sumer but spreading rapidly northward.

While the Hellenistic world flourished in Greece and the Middle East, and Rome began its long rise from obscurity to power, most of Western Europe was dominated by the Celts.

However, this was not a period of stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa. First, the culture of learning that had flourished during the Abbasid period continued to flourish.

The Platonic Academy flourished throughout the period of Classical Greece, the Hellenic Age that followed, and the Roman Empire, only to be dissolved by the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) emperor Justinian in the 6th century CE. It was, in short, one of the most significant and enduring schools in history.

Although the Renaissance argument for the degradation of medieval culture was overstated (medieval intellectual life flourished during the late Middle Ages), there is no doubt that there was a different kind of intellectual courage and optimism that emerged from the return to classical rather than medieval models during the Renaissance.

The feudal system flourished in the early Middle Ages. Although it had its origins in the centuries after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, the formal system of vassals receiving land grants by promising military service to kings (or, increasingly, in exchange for cash payments in lieu of military service) really came of age in the 11th and 12th centuries.