8 sentences with 'ivory'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ivory and other words derived from it.
• « Like the insulated, elite world of Washington, the ivory towers of academia are fertile ground for the arrogance of privileged brains. »
• « The kingdom of Nubia was rich in gold, ivory and slaves, taken from neighbouring lands, making it a rich and powerful place in its own right. »
• « As noted above, there were many lucrative commodities (such as gold and ivory) that Europeans coveted and could only obtain from North African traders. »
• « The Ptolemies maintained trading posts along the Red Sea and as far south as present-day Eritrea and Ethiopia, trading for ivory and gold from the African interior. »
• « Europeans had also long traded with Muslim merchants in North Africa for gold, ivory and spices, and wanted to cut out the middlemen and reach sources further south. »
• « No attempt was made to develop in Congo in any way that was not directly related to the business of ivory and rubber tapping. In a period of 25 years, the population of the region was halved. »
• « What changed, however, was that Europeans were for the first time able to access directly the sources of luxury goods such as spices, indigo, ivory and gold, and Portugal was at the forefront of European states trying to reach these sources. »
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