8 sentences with 'reign'
Example sentences and phrases with the word reign and other words derived from it.
• « There were huge building projects under her supervision, and it was also under her reign that large quantities of sub-Saharan African goods began to be imported from Nubia: gold, incense, live elephants, panther skins and other forms of wealth. »
• « By the time of the reign of the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pilezer III (r. 745 - 727 BC), the Assyrians had shifted their borders to the Mediterranean in the west and Persia (present-day Iran) in the east. »
• « The Ptolemaic reign is particularly noteworthy: starting with Ptolemy himself, the existing Egyptian bureaucracy was expanded and its middle and upper ranks were filled entirely by Greeks (and Macedonians), who developed obsessively detailed records of every sheaf of wheat owed to the royal treasury. »
• « Only one major failure marred his reign: three legions (perhaps as many as 20,000 soldiers) were destroyed in a gigantic ambush in the forests of Germania in 9 CE, halting any attempt to expand Roman power beyond the Rhine and Danube rivers. »
• « All surviving written accounts of the lives of the Julian emperors were written many decades, in some cases more than a century, after their reign. »
• « The only positive enterprise of his reign was the completion of major building projects, both palaces for himself and public works (including roads and fortifications), and it should also be noted that the empire remained under stable administration during his reign. »
• « Diocletian further subdivided the empire, so that for the remainder of his reign, the four co-emperors (two "augustii" and two "caesars") worked together to administer the entire territory. »