9 sentences with “innovations”

The Archaic Age was the period in which the major Greek political innovations took place.

Thus, one of the main cultural innovations of the Greeks, the creation of drama, grew out of the worship of the gods.

Also, despite the innovations that Darius I introduced into the organisation, the satraps (rulers) usually operated with a large degree of autonomy.

In addition to the increased animal power available through these innovations, farmers began to take advantage of new techniques that greatly increased the output of the fields themselves.

The English word "polis" derives from "polis" - the polis was the centre of Greek politics in every city-state, and Greek innovations in the field of political theory would have an enormous historical legacy.

The Assyrians introduced two innovations in military technology and organisation that were of critical importance: a standing cavalry, the first of any state in the world, and a large standing army of trained infantry.

As noted in the last chapter, the eastern half of the Roman Empire survived for 1,000 years after the fall of the western half. It continued most of Rome's traditions and added many innovations in architecture, science, religion and learning.

The Greeks of the Classical Age deserve credit for an intellectual culture that gave rise to remarkable innovations: humanistic art, literature, and a new focus on the rational mind's ability to learn about nature and improve politics and social organisation.

Perhaps the most innovative and important of Solon's innovations was the concept of an impersonal state, in which politicians came and went but which continued as an institution that obeyed written laws; this contrasted with the "state" as a mere ruling cabal of elite men, which Athens had been before Solon's intervention.