8 sentences with 'farms'
Example sentences and phrases with the word farms and other words derived from it.
• « In addition, Spartans in training were often forced to steal food (from their own slave farms); they were punished if caught, but the offence was being caught, not theft - the idea being that the future warrior had failed to live up to the required level of skill in stealth. »
• « As the vast majority of the Greek population outside the cities were farmers, women naturally worked alongside men on farms. However, they had no legal control over their own livelihoods, even if they did much of the actual work, with their husbands (or fathers or brothers) retaining full legal ownership. »
• « As the rich got richer, they bought up land and sometimes even forced poorer citizens off their farms. Thus, there was an existential threat to Rome's armies, and with it, to Rome itself. »
• « Tiberius Gracchus, among others, was concerned that the common, free, farm-owning Roman would become extinct if the current trend of wealthy landowners taking over farms and replacing farmers with slaves continued. Without these commoners, Rome's armies would be drastically weakened. »
• « Gaius Marius was popular among Roman commoners because he won constant victories against enemies in both Africa and Germany, and because he distributed land and farms to his poor soldiers. »
• « In the eastern Roman Empire, the strength of the capital, the success of the armies and the loyalty of the elites to Rome as an idea encouraged the continued strength of Roman identity. Although poor farmers still had little to thank the Roman state for in their daily lives, their farms were intact and local leaders remained Roman, not Gothic or Frankish or Vandal. »
• « Over time, peasants would see their access to the commons restricted by landed nobles who sought to turn them into money-producing farms, but during the medieval period itself, peasants continued to enjoy the right to use them. »
• « Italian farms were prosperous and, by the Renaissance period, produced a significant and continuing surplus, feeding the growing cities. »