8 sentences with 'economy'

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

« The Uruk economy was what historians call "redistributive", in which a central authority has the right to control all economic activity, essentially taxing it and then redistributing it as that authority sees fit. »
« The irony of this period is that Egypt's economy diversified and expanded. It seems to have been a time when a new elite commissioned royal-inspired goods and thus supported the emerging craftsmen. »
« Like their Mesopotamian neighbours, the Egyptians lived in a redistributive economy, an economy in which crops were taken directly from farmers (i.e. peasants) by the king's agents and then redistributed. »
« The Hittite empire expanded rapidly on the basis of a flourishing Bronze Age economy, expanding from Anatolia to conquer territory in Mesopotamia, Syria and Canaan, eventually clashing with the New Kingdom of Egypt. »
« Coinage revolutionised the ancient economy, greatly increasing the ability of merchants to travel far and buy foreign goods, because they no longer had to travel with large quantities of goods to trade. »
« In practice, women were very valuable to the Greek economy, providing almost all domestic labour and also contributing to agriculture and trade. »
« the wealth of elite landowners grew approximately eightfold between AD 1 and 400, and there was almost no new wealth in the Roman economy during that period. »
« Nevertheless, despite some important Roman victories, the Sassanid state remained stable and the economy prosperous for centuries. »

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