3 sentences with “pinnacle”

The Assyrians represented the pinnacle of military power and bureaucratic organisation of all civilisations so far considered.

The popes were not only at the pinnacle of the western church, but often ruled as kings unto themselves, and always had complex relationships with other rulers.

The social elites insisted that scientific progress, economic growth and their own growing political power were all results of the superiority of European civilisation, a civilisation that had reached its pinnacle through their own ingenuity. Particularly in the last decades of the century, they characterised that superiority in racial terms.