8 sentences with “dynamic”

In essence, many monasteries and convents became the most dynamic and commercially successful institutions in their home regions.

In the 18th century, the Third Estate was much more diverse, dynamic and educated than before. However, it did not enjoy better political representation.

From 1560 onwards, 10% of France's inhabitants were Huguenots, many of whom represented its dynamic middle class: merchants, lawyers and prosperous citizens.

What all the cultures considered in this chapter have in common is that they were more dynamic and, in the case of empires, more powerful than the earlier Mesopotamian (and even Egyptian) states.

France at that time had a dynamic economy and important towns and cities. It also had a very weak monarchy under the ruling dynasty of the Valois, who were kept in check by the powerful nobility.

From 1850 to 1900, the average Frenchman saw his real purchasing power increase by 165%. Comparable increases occurred in the other dynamic, commercial and industrial economies of Western Europe (and, eventually, in the United States).

The early assaults on Jews and Muslims had already driven out the most dynamic economic elements in Spain, and the attack on the Moriscos and conversos (descendants of Muslims and Jews who had converted to Catholicism) drove many of them away as well.

The Guise family was advised by the Jesuits and supported by the King of Spain, while the second Bourbon family represented the growing number of economically dynamic Huguenots concentrated in the south (they were especially numerous in Navarre, a small independent kingdom between France and Spain that soon became embroiled in war).