8 sentences with 'revolved'
Example sentences and phrases with the word revolved and other words derived from it.
• « Instead, the entire society of the Old Kingdom revolved around the production of agricultural surpluses from the Nile, efficiently catalogued and taxed by the royal bureaucracy and "spent" on the construction of huge temples and, eventually, tombs. »
• « In the prosaic politics and social organisation of ancient Egypt, they revolved around the role of the scribes. »
• « These exploits almost always revolved around war, immortalised in Homer's account of the Mycenaean siege of Troy, a city in western Anatolia whose ruins were discovered in the late 19th century. »
• « Roman virtues revolved around the idea that a Roman was strong, honest, straightforward and powerful, while the Greeks were (supposedly) unreliable and incapable of effective political organisation. »
• « Much of Roman social life revolved around the system of clientelism. Clientelism consisted of networks of 'patrons' - people with power and influence - and their 'clients' - those who sought the patron's support. »
• « The Rule dictated a strict schedule for daily life that revolved around prayer, study and useful work for the monastery itself (tending crops and animals, doing work around the monastery, etc.). »
• « The main reason for this deliberate conversion of these peoples to Christianity revolved around the desire of the barbarian kings to simply stop being barbarians. Most kings recognised that Christianity was a prerequisite for entering into trade and diplomatic relations with Byzantium and the Christian kingdoms of the West. »
• « Married noblewomen managed their estates, a necessity given how closely nobles' social identity revolved around warfare, while noble widows sometimes served as formal feudal vassals to more powerful lords, even occasionally leading troops when called into service. »