11 sentences with 'lands'
Example sentences and phrases with the word lands and other words derived from it.
• « Their nobles had more power than the nobility of the Old Kingdom as well, playing important political roles in their lands. »
• « The pharaohs of the New Kingdom recruited the leaders of the lands they had conquered as puppet kings, surrounded by Egyptian advisors. »
• « The pharaohs adopted the practice of bringing back to Egypt many foreign princes from the lands they had conquered. »
• « There were few deposits of minerals or other natural resources that could be used or traded with other lands. »
• « Sometime after 660 BC, King Ashurbanipal ordered the compilation of all the texts of his entire kingdom, including those of the conquered lands, and went on to create a huge library to house them. »
• « Two generations later, when the Neo-Babylonian empire itself fell to the Persians, the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great allowed all the slaves of the Babylonians to return to their lands, so the Babylonian captivity came to an end and the Jews returned to Judah, where they rebuilt the Temple. »
• « As they continued to practice Judaism and maintain Jewish traditions, the notion of a people dispersed in different lands but still united by culture and religion emerged. »
• « Of these, the most important was the creation of the polis: a political unit centred on a city and including the surrounding lands. »
• « Persian kings were happy to recognise the authority of the rulers of the lands they had conquered, but they demanded that these rulers in turn recognise the overall supremacy of the Persian king. »
• « Greek knowledge of the outside world was largely based on hearsay; the Greeks loved fantastic stories about lands beyond their immediate knowledge, which is why even great historians such as Herodotus reported that India was populated by magical beasts and multi-headed men. »