10 sentences with 'mines'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mines and other words derived from it.
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• « Philip II attacked neighbouring Greek settlements and seized gold mines in northern Greece, which he paid his soldiers and paid to equip them as well. »
• « Historical evidence suggests that slaves in the mines were routinely worked to death, not unlike plantation slaves in Brazil and the Caribbean thousands of years later. »
• « Coal has to be mined, and coal mines in north-western Europe tended to fill quickly with water as they dipped below the water table, requiring cumbersome pumping systems. »
• « At the same time, conditions in these mines were extremely dangerous and difficult. Thus, coal was only used in small quantities in England until well into the Renaissance period. »
• « The "mass society" inaugurated by the industrial revolution came of age in the last decades of the 19th century, a century after it had begun in the coal mines and textile mills of northern England. »
• « Steam engines were originally used to pump water from mines, but it was soon discovered that they could be used to replace the water power itself in mills, and Watt developed a rotary (spinning) mechanism attached to the engine. »
• « About 20,000 slaves escaped from the Athenian silver mines that had originally paid for the army before the Persian war and were received by the Spartans as conscripts (thus reinforcing the Spartan forces and cutting off Athens' main source of revenue). »
• « The irony of the wealth generated by the American mines is that it undermined the long-term vitality of the Spanish state itself: Spain did not have to cultivate trade or pursue technological or bureaucratic innovation in the same way as the other European powers because it had a huge surplus of precious metals. »
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