8 sentences with 'successors'
Example sentences and phrases with the word successors and other words derived from it.
• « Solon's successors were a collection of new tyrants, some of whom took more land from the aristocrats and distributed it to farmers, most of whom sponsored new building projects, but none of whom definitively broke the power of the old families. »
• « Both the new cities founded by Alexander the Great and his successors and the ancient Greek settlements along the eastern shores of the Mediterranean grew and prospered. »
• « In precisely the same period in which Alexander Mango and his successors first conquered and then ruled the territories of the ancient Persian Empire, Rome was in the process of evolving from a city in central Italy to the centre of what would eventually become one of the largest and most enduring empires in the history of the world. »
• « 3. The "Five Good Emperors": 96 - 180 CE - a "dynasty" of emperors who chose their successors, rather than power passing to their relatives. »
• « For almost a century, the emperors appointed their own successors from among the most competent members of the younger generation of Roman elites. Not least because none of them (except the last, with disastrous consequences) had outlived their direct heirs, each emperor would adopt a younger man as his son, thus ensuring his succession. »
• « Justinian's successors tried to hold on to North Africa, Italy and Spain by establishing territories called "exarchates" ruled by governors known as "exarchs"; exarchates were military provinces in which civil and military control were combined. »
• « Under the caliph Abu Bakr and his successors, Umar (another of Muhammad's in-laws; r. 634 - 644), and Uthman (r. 644 - 655), Muslim armies expanded rapidly. This began as a means of securing the loyalty of the divided Arab tribes, as well as expanding the faith; both Abu Bakur and Umar were forced to suppress the revolts of the Arab tribes, and Umar came up with the idea of attacking Persia and Byzantium to maintain the loyalty of the tribes. »
• « The rather brief and short-lived period of political unity under the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates, which saw most of the Middle East and North Africa united under the rule of 'caliphs' (political successors to the Prophet Muhammad), had already passed by the time the first European crusaders arrived. »