Sentences with 'confederations'
Example sentences and phrases with the word confederations and other words derived from it.
• « The Turks were nomadic warriors organised in tribal confederations (the Seljuks were merely the main tribe and not the real rulers during the first wave of migration), effective in warfare but generally poor at establishing stable governments. »
• « In short, Persian political culture was crucial in creating royal states out of tribal confederations, although it is important to recognise that many of these states were not particularly long-lived during the medieval period. »
• « Tribal confederations revolved around the military prowess and charismatic qualities of individual leaders, so even with the Persian bureaucracy they rarely held together for long. »
• « However, much of the lands of the British American Empire remained under the control of powerful native confederations, which made short work of any claims to British rule beyond the Atlantic coast settlements. »