8 sentences with “politically”

Hoplites were important politically because they were not always aristocrats, although they had to be free citizens able to pay for their own weapons.

Later crusades were often no more than politically motivated power grabs by popes, launched against political opponents of a given pope (i.e. fellow European Christians who happened to disagree with a pope).

While most Europeans (excluding Jewish communities, the few remaining pagans and members of heretical groups) may have come to share a religious identity by the 11th century, Europe was fragmented politically.

The origin of "Germany" (which did not unite politically until 1871, more than a thousand years after Charlemagne's lifetime) was Eastern France, the kingdom that Charlemagne's son, Louis the Pious, left to one of his sons.

The two regions had been politically distinct for centuries, but (according to archaeology and the dating system created by Manetho) in about 3100 BC Narmer, a king of Upper Egypt, conquered Lower Egypt and united the country for the first time.

One of the historical ironies of this period of history is that although the Roman Empire began to decline and (eventually) collapse politically, it lived on through the ideas and beliefs that originally arose in the Roman context - it lived on ideologically and spiritually.

Since Romans were convinced that anything resembling monarchy was politically repulsive, a dictator was expected to serve the greater good of Rome and then step aside when peace was restored. In fact, until the first century AD, dictators retired when their respective crises were resolved.

Rumours in the west claimed that Antony was under Cleopatra's thumb (unlikely: the two were politically astute and seem to have shared a genuine affection for each other) and was breaking with traditional Roman values, and Octavian seized on this behaviour to claim that he was the true protector of Roman morality.