Polities in a sentence

But the degenerations in the above-mentioned polities are, of a kingdom, indeed, a tyranny; of an aristocracy, an oligarchy; and of a polity, a democracy.

But while empires no longer existed, they left an enduring legacy: sets of distinctive templates for organizing very large polities with diverse populations.

The word also appears in Mandinka, Songhai languages, Teda, and in other West African polities where Islam is predominant.

As any other polities do, there must be no hesitation in standing up for sensitive sectors,” Jaishankar asserts.

He writes of Plataea and Melos, two small polities caught in the maelstrom of great-power conflict between Athens and Sparta.

Hmmm, what to say to all of the cheerleaders for both of these idiot polities?

We formed chiefdoms, kingdoms and then larger polities and various ways of distributing power after that.

After 1599, the empire lost the Bambouk goldfields and disintegrated into petty polities.

Another reason cited is political instability through rivalry among the different hereditary polities.

Besides the advent of swifter communication among Italian polities, his extensive building of roads throughout Italy also allowed Rome's armies to march swiftly and at an unprecedented pace across the country.

Bronze daggers, mirrors, jewelry, and weaponry have been found, as well as evidence of walled-town polities.

Collins, Early Medieval Europe, pp. 96–97 An important difference was the gradual loss of tax revenue by the new polities.

However, both polities in the process exhausted their resources and manpower, which resulted in the contraction of both powers and changed regional dynamics for centuries to come.

In the late 17th century, social changes within the polities of the Gold Coast led to transformations in warfare, and to the shift from being a gold exporting and slave importing economy to being a minor local slave exporting economy.

The empire dissolved into petty polities, fighting among each other for war captives to sell into slavery.

The theory also has a strong orientalist bent, regarding all Asian states as generally the same while finding reasons for European polities not fitting the pattern.

They had a common linguistic, religious, and artistic heritage that distinguished them from the culture of the surrounding polities. citation By the 6th century, however, the Continental Celtic languages were no longer in wide use.