11 sentences with 'enslaved'
Example sentences and phrases with the word enslaved and other words derived from it.
• « According to the Hebrew Bible, with the rise of the New Kingdom the Hebrews were enslaved, with their leader Moses leading them away sometime around 1300 - 1200 BCE. »
• « The Babylonians burned Jerusalem, along with Solomon's Temple, to the ground, and enslaved tens of thousands of Jews. »
• « Likewise, as the exclusive worship of Yahweh grew in importance among the Jews (now separated from the other Hebrews, who had been enslaved), the concept of Yahweh's omnipotence and omnipresence also grew. »
• « An increasing number of formerly free Athenian citizens thus found themselves enslaved to pay their debts to an aristocrat. »
• « He used public money to buy Athenian slaves who had been enslaved abroad and bring them back to Athens. »
• « Not only were thousands of Carthaginians killed or enslaved, but the city was brutally sacked (Polybius' commentary on the terror inspired by Rome, mentioned above, referred specifically to the horrific sacking of Carthage). »
• « Julius Caesar was both a ruthless fighter, who massacred entire villages and enslaved hundreds of thousands of Celts (killing or enslaving over a million people in the end), and a gifted writer who wrote his own accounts of his wars in excellent Latin prose. »
• « As a consequence of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, the Romans enslaved or deported much of the Jewish population, contributing to the phenomenon of the Jewish Diaspora, the people without a homeland united only by the Hebrew Bible, the teaching of the rabbis and Jewish cultural traditions. »
• « The Bulgars destroyed the remaining Byzantine cities in the northern Balkans, massacred or enslaved the inhabitants and crushed the Byzantine armies. »