14 sentences with 'ruled'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ruled and other words derived from it.
• « Thus, the typical city-state of early Mesopotamia, circa 2500 BC, was a city-state engaged in long-distance trade, ruled by a king who worked closely with the city's priesthood and who frequently waged war against his neighbours. »
• « The date used for the foundation of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, 2680 BC, is when the third royal dynasty was established and ruled all of Egypt. »
• « The pharaohs divided Egypt into two administrative regions: Upper Egypt, which ran up the Nile and ruled from the city of Thebes, and Lower Egypt, near the Nile delta, where it flowed into the Mediterranean and ruled from the city of Memphis. »
• « East of the Hittite Empire, Mesopotamia was not ruled by a single state or empire for most of the Bronze Age. »
• « Over the following centuries, the Kassites ruled successfully over Babylon and the surrounding territories, and the entire region enjoyed a period of prosperity. »
• « The Minoans ruled the island of Crete in the Mediterranean and created a merchant navy (i.e. a fleet whose purpose was primarily trade, not war) to trade with the Egyptians, Hittites and other peoples of the area. »
• « After being liberated by Cyrus, the Jews remained part of the Persian Empire, ruled by a Persian ruler (called a "satrap"). »
• « The Jews went from being ruled by the Persians to the Greeks and the Romans (although they occasionally became independent for a time), and eventually dispersed throughout the Roman Empire. »
• « In other words, the priests of Yahweh did not claim that he ruled over all people, everywhere, only that he was the God of the Hebrews and their land. »
• « In turn, the Medes ruled a collection of closely related clans known as the Persians, who would go on to rule territories far beyond the heart of Iran. »
• « Darius I came to power after leading a conspiracy that may have assassinated Cambyses II's younger brother Bardiya, who had ruled briefly. »
• « Macedonia was a kingdom ruled by a single monarch, but that monarch had to deal constantly with both his conniving kinsmen and his disloyal nobles, all of whom frequently conspired to gain more power for themselves. »