7 sentences with “populations”

There was a relative shortage of Greeks relative to the native populations, and therefore the Seleucids were also the most diverse.

Especially in places like Egypt and Mesopotamia that had huge non-Greek populations, resentment could easily turn into open rebellion.

Both China and India are prime examples of regions that produced far greater wealth, had far larger populations and were far more powerful militarily than any European kingdom;

Among these cities were also several that had populations of more than 100,000 by the 15th century, including Florence and Milan, which served as centres of banking, trade and craftsmanship.

The greatest period of contrast between the eastern lands of Byzantium and the caliphates, on the one hand, and most of Europe, on the other, was between the 8th and 11th centuries. During that period, there were no cities in Europe with populations of more than 15,000.

His "grand strategy" was to seize territory from Habsburg Spain and Habsburg Austria by initiating a series of wars; he planned to force conquered populations to help pay for the wars and ultimately hoped to expand France to the Pyrenees in the south and the Rhine in the east.

It is true that the French and British wanted to avoid full-scale war at any cost; their civilian populations were totally opposed to war and, especially in France, their governments were unstable and unpopular. Thus, the British and French political leaders did not think that their concessions to Hitler would collapse: they thought of them as preserving the peace.