7 sentences with 'tribute'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tribute and other words derived from it.
• « The kingdom of Judah was simply too small to avoid paying tribute to various neighbouring powers, but its people were proud and defensive of their independence, so every generation or so there were uprisings. »
• « Persian images of the kings showed them receiving tribute from other lesser kings who had come to Susa or Persepolis in a show of loyalty and support. »
• « In time, some of the Germanic tribes were allowed to settle along the Roman borders in return for tribute payments to Rome. »
• « Towards the end of his reign, Justinian simply made peace with the Persian king Khusro I by agreeing to pay an annual tribute of 30,000 gold coins a year. In the end it was less costly to spend huge sums of gold as a bribe than to pay for the wars. »
• « When Charlemagne conquered them a year later, he declared himself king of the Lombards, rather than forcing a new Lombard ruler to become a vassal and pay tribute. »
• « The Vikings attacked Constantinople at least three times in the 9th and 10th centuries, extracting tribute and concessions in trade, and perhaps most importantly, came to rule what would one day become Russia. »
• « It also terrified Europeans, who heard travellers' tales of non-Christian "Tartars" in the east who had crushed all opposition, and in Russia it created a complex political situation in which the native Slavic peoples were forced to pay tribute to the Mongol overlords. »