7 sentences with 'heirs'
Example sentences and phrases with the word heirs and other words derived from it.
• « These happy times for Byzantium ended when Emperor Basil II died in 1025 without male heirs. Simultaneously, a series of bad harvests hit the empire. »
• « Greeks in the Hellenistic kingdoms felt that they were the heirs to Alexander's conquests and were therefore justified in occupying most, if not all, positions of political power. »
• « The capture of Constantinople inaugurated a new phase in Ottoman history, in which the Ottomans saw themselves as heirs not only to the early Islamic states but also to the Roman Empire. »
• « The lesser emperors were the respective heirs of the greater emperors, destined to assume all power when their elders stepped down. When that happened, each new senior emperor selected the younger ones. »
• « An Athenian politician, Demosthenes, once said: "we have heirs for pleasure, regular prostitutes to attend to our physical needs, and wives to bear legitimate children and be faithful custodians of our homes". »
• « Because Russia had adopted the Eastern Orthodox branch of Christianity centuries earlier, and because Constantinople (and the last remnant of today's Roman Empire) fell to the Turks in 1453, Russian rulers after Ivan IV claimed to be the true heirs to the political power of the ancient Roman emperors. »
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