9 sentences with 'monarchies'
Example sentences and phrases with the word monarchies and other words derived from it.
• « The Antigonids ruled over Macedonia and Greece. Despite controlling the heart of Macedonia and Greece itself, the Antigonids were the weakest of the Hellenistic monarchies. »
• « Romanitas was deeply compatible with Greek Stoicism (which came of age in the Hellenistic monarchies just as Rome itself was expanding). »
• « However, Renaissance thinking spread through interactions between the kings and nobility of the rest of Europe and the elites of the Italian city-states, especially after a series of wars in the late 15th and early 16th centuries brought the great monarchies of Europe into direct political control in Italy. »
• « The long-term pattern, from about 1350 - 1500, was for the larger monarchies to expand their territory and wealth, which allowed them to fund better armies, leading to further expansion. »
• « Monarchs had always linked their identity to war. European monarchies were originally the product of Germanic conquests at the end of the Roman period, and it was a point of great pride among noble families to trace their family lines back to the warlords of old. »
• « Finally, the Popes struggled to claim the right to intervene in secular affairs as they saw fit, though it was a struggle they rarely won, losing even more ground as the new, more powerful and centralised monarchies came to power in the 15th century. »
• « Absolutism' is a concept of political authority created by historians to describe a change in the governments of the major monarchies of Europe in the early modern period. »
• « Almost everywhere else in Europe, other monarchies tried to imitate both the style and substance of Louis XIV's court and style of government. »
• « The 18th century saw the rise of five states, all of them monarchies, comprising what would eventually be called the Great Powers. »