8 sentences with “lucrative”

As noted above, there were many lucrative commodities (such as gold and ivory) that Europeans coveted and could only obtain from North African traders.

In many cases, popes and priests lived openly with concubines, had children, and worked to ensure that their children received lucrative positions in the Church.

After Da Gama, Portuguese fleets established a lucrative monopoly on trade between Europe and the kingdoms of West Africa, the kingdoms of East Africa and Indian traders.

The largest of these kingdoms was Mali, which oversaw a lucrative trade in gold and various luxury goods northwards via caravans to North Africa and the rest of the Mediterranean.

Slaves were one of the most lucrative forms of booty available to Roman soldiers, and so much land had been conquered by Rome that the population of the Republic was overcrowded with slaves.

While India was the most important and lucrative part of the British Empire, it was the conquest of Africa by the European powers that stood as the high point of the new imperialism as a whole.

Although far behind Spain, France now had its own West Indian colonies. Both islands became lucrative sugar plantation sites that generated profits for French planters by relying on African slave labour.

Italy was at the centre of the lucrative trade between Europe and the Middle East, a status determined both by its geography and the role Italians had played in the transport of goods and people during the Crusader period.