7 sentences with 'posts'

Example sentences and phrases with the word posts and other words derived from it.


« The Greeks established trading posts in the areas where they settled, including Egypt. »
« The Persians continued the Assyrian practice of building roads and establishing supply posts for their messengers. »
« A messenger on the Royal Road could cover 1,600 miles in a week on horseback, exchanging horses at posts along the way. »
« The Roman armies of the western empire quickly marched back to Italy to fight the Goths, abandoning their traditional defensive posts. »
« The imperial bureaucracy had enormous power in Byzantium. Provincial elites sent their sons to Constantinople to study and obtain posts. »
« The Ptolemies maintained trading posts along the Red Sea and as far south as present-day Eritrea and Ethiopia, trading for ivory and gold from the African interior. »
« Although Portugal had enjoyed a (relatively brief) period of ascendancy beginning with the remarkable voyage of Vasco Da Gama in the 15th century, it could not compete with the better-funded and better-equipped forces of the Netherlands and Britain, so most Portuguese colonies and trading posts were eventually lost to their rivals. »

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