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The peace and prosperity created under leadership of Guptas enabled the pursuit of scientific and artistic endeavors in India.
This state of peace with two powerful neighbors enabled the Kingdom of Israel to expand its influence and even political control in Transjordan, and these factors combined brought economic prosperity to the kingdom.
The peace and prosperity created under the leadership of the Guptas enabled the pursuit of scientific and artistic endeavors.
The interdependent relationship between the Mahlemut and their dogs fostered prosperity among both and enabled them to flourish in the inhospitable land above the Arctic Circle.
The prosperity brought by the Asklepieion enabled Epidaurus to construct civic monuments too: the huge theatre that delighted Pausanias for its symmetry and beauty, which is used once again for dramatic performances, the ceremonial Hestiatoreion ( banqueting hall ), baths and a palaestra.
The peace and prosperity created under leadership of Guptas enabled the pursuit of scientific and artistic endeavors in India.
The long period of prosperity enabled the construction of such handsome public buildings as the Old Synagogue of 1559.
The Mongol invasions seem not to have affected the Avar territory and the alliance with the Golden Horde enabled the Avar khans to increase their prosperity.
Its elevation, poor soils, isolation from major transport routes and rainfall of over 34 inches a year limited farm production, but the presence of coal, iron and sandstone, the development of turnpike roads and the coming of the railways enabled Thornton to share in the prosperity generated by the 19th century wool worsted trade.
The factory brought a degree of prosperity and enabled the construction stately country houses in the vicinity of the village ( Le Bied, Vaudijon, La Mairesse, Cottendart, Sombacour ).
The peace and prosperity created under Gupta leadership enabled the pursuit of scientific and artistic endeavors.
The railway enabled the town to sell its products over a much wider area and restored it to prosperity.

prosperity and some
Believing that without Christian wisdom there can be neither prosperity nor success in war, Alfred aimed " to set to learning ( as long as they are not useful for some other employment ) all the free-born young men now in England who have the means to apply themselves to it.
His loyalty to the emperor Frederick, and the expenses incurred in this connection, aroused some irritation among his subjects, but his rule was a period of prosperity in Saxony.
Shortly after the depletion of the gas in 1900 the automobile industry set up factories in the nearby large cities, and Fairmount became a bedroom community, restoring some of its lost prosperity.
# The prevalence of that pacific and friendly disposition among the people of the United States which will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies, to make those mutual concessions which are requisite to the general prosperity, and in some instances, to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest of the community.
All this certainly tended to reduce to gap between Chinese and Malay standards of living, although some argued that this would have happened anyway as Malaysia ’ s trade and general prosperity increased.
Increasing prosperity resulting from Muslim conquests in the centuries following Muhammad's death, was accompanied by what some Muslims bemoaned as a general " corruption " of morals in the two holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
Archaeological evidence indicates that in the latter half of the Middle Bronze Age ( circa 1700 BCE ) the city enjoyed some prosperity, its walls having been strengthened and expanded.
Simeon was an entrepreneur in trade on the Columbia River ; in his will he suggested that his wife could " devote some portion of my estate to benevolent objects, or to the cultivation, illustration, or development of the fine arts in the city of Portland, or to some other suitable purpose, which shall be of permanent value and contribute to the beauty of the city and to the intelligence, prosperity, and happiness of the inhabitants ".
The growing national economy and prosperity led to a recovery during the 1960s, with some down years during the early 1970s in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
Author and political commentator William Safire, in his political dictionary, traced the term " trickle-down economics " ( common in the Reagan era ) to Bryan's statement that some believe that government should legislate for the wealthy, and allow prosperity to " leak through " on those below.
The involvement of larger numbers of people in collecting activities comes with the prosperity and increased leisure for some in the later 19th century in industrial countries.
" Resolved, that it is expedient to remove Williams College to some more central part of the State whenever sufficient funds can be obtained to defray the necessary expenses incurred and the losses sustained by removal, and to secure the prosperity of the college, and when a fair prospect shall be presented of obtaining for the institution the united support and patronage of the friends of literature and religion in the western part of the Commonwealth, and when the General Court shall give their assent to the measure.
Under abbots John Greenwell ( 1442 – 1471 ), Thomas Swinton ( 1471 – 8 ), John Darnton ( 1478 – 95 ), who undertook some much needed restoration of the fabric of the abbey including notable work on the church, and Marmaduke Huby ( 1495 – 1526 ) Fountains regained stability and prosperity.
Only activities associated with a dynamic exporting centre enjoyed some degree of prosperity, as occurred in Tucuman, where cloth was manufactured, and in Córdoba and the Litoral, where livestock was raised to supply the mines of Upper Peru.
The results of Andorra's elections thus far indicate that many support the government's reform initiatives and believe Andorra must, to some degree, integrate into the European Union in order to continue to enjoy its prosperity.
The site of that city had remained desolate for a period of 58 years after its destruction by the Crotoniats ; when at length, in 452 BC, a number of the Sybarite exiles and their descendants made an attempt to establish themselves again on the spot, under the guidance of some leaders of Thessalian origin ; and the new colony rose so rapidly to prosperity that it excited the jealousy of the Crotoniats, who, in consequence, expelled the new settlers a little more than 5 years after the establishment of the colony.
Beginning in the 1960 – 61 season, Zaragoza entered a period of great prosperity, showcasing some of the greatest players playing in Spain during that decade, which earned for themselves the designation of Los Magníficos.
However, some legacy of the historic municipal divisions survives to the present day, with the relative prosperity of the different parts of the borough still split broadly along the old boundary lines.
There is a Uruguayan and Argentinian tradition of eating gnocchi on the 29th of each month, with some people putting money beneath their plates to bring prosperity.
The eastern part of Johnson County held vast amounts of coal, some veins reaching thicknesses of four to five feet which greatly added to the prosperity of Knob Noster.
Although an International Paper mill, the Barry Telford state prison and a few smaller factories provided some industrial base for the town, New Boston depends heavily on the two military installations for its continued prosperity.
Nevada enjoyed some prosperity after becoming a stop on the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, and the town incorporated in 1889.
It is clear that there was some prosperity there, particularly where rivers permitted access to the upland beyond the fen.
During the last years of the Western Roman Empire, the land was in a desolate condition, but its occupation by the Ostrogoths in the time of Theodoric the Great, who placed it under a dux, to some extent revived its prosperity.

prosperity and Greek
These Greek city-states reached great levels of prosperity that resulted in an unprecedented cultural boom, that of classical Greece, expressed in architecture, drama, science, mathematics and philosophy, and nurtured in Athens under a democratic government.
Demetrius ' son, Antigonus II ( 277 – 239 BC ), defeated a Galatian invasion as a condottiere, and regained his family's position in Macedonia ; he successfully restored order and prosperity there, though he lost control of many of the Greek city-states.
The Selinuntines are next mentioned in 466 BCE, as co-operating with the other free cities of Sicily in assisting the Syracusans to expel Thrasybulus ; and there is every reason to suppose that they fully shared in the prosperity of the half century that followed, a period of tranquility and opulence for most of the Greek cities in Sicily.
* Rhodes, rising in prosperity, becomes head of an Island League and helps to keep the peace and freedom of the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.
Tyche ( Τύχη, meaning " luck " in Greek, Roman equivalent: Fortuna ) was the presiding tutelary deity that governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny.
Cyrene promptly became the chief town of ancient Libya and established commercial relations with all the Greek cities, reaching the height of its prosperity under its own kings in the 5th century BC.
The cornucopia became the attribute of several Greek and Roman deities, particularly those associated with the harvest, prosperity, or spiritual abundance, such as personifications of Earth ( Gaia or Terra ); the nymph Maia ; and Fortuna, the goddess of luck, who had the power to grant prosperity.
But by and large those who were Greek and freeborn had at least chosen to come to Athens, attracted by the prosperity of the large, dynamic, cosmopolitan city and the opportunities not available to them in their place of origin.
However, the intercommunal conflict that broke out in 1963-64 between the island's Greek and Turkish population again eroded Kyrenia's prosperity.
Due to economic developments taking place both within and outside the Ottoman empire, the 18th century witnessed the ascent of two merchant groups to prosperity: Albanian sailors of several Aegean islands, such as Hydra and Andros, became affluent maritime merchants and Rumeli muleteers of Slav, Greek and predominantly Vlach origins changed from muleteers and peddlers to independent merchants and bankers after the treaty of Passarowitz.
The introduction of Greek colonists restored its prosperity, but the Goths practically annihilated it in the 3rd century.
The manufacture and export of garum was an element of the prosperity of coastal Greek emporia from the Ligurian coast of Gaul to the coast of Hispania Baetica, and perhaps an impetus for Roman penetration of these coastal regions.
The term Halcyon originates from the Greek myth of Alcyone and means golden or marked by peace and prosperity.
Under Byzantine / Greek rule the area of the Levant met an era of stability and prosperity.
It was named in August 2003 after Orthosie, the Greek goddess of prosperity and one of the Horae.
Again occupied by the ' Greek ' Byzantines from 1018 to 1186, it enjoyed great prosperity ; a section of the population was Paulician or Manichaean, heresies from both Catholic and ( later ) Orthodox points of view.
He graduated from Yale University in 1865, was instructor there for two years, was United States consul at Piraeus in Greece in 1869-1871, taught Greek in Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts, in 1876-1885, and was principal of Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, Connecticut, from 1885 to 1903, the school owing its prosperity to him hardly less than to its founders.
Today, the village of Penfield is distinguished by the Greek Revival architecture of Old Mercer Chapel, community churches, town cemetery, and Victorian homes that flourished until 1919 when the prosperity built during the " Cotton Era " was ended by the boll weevil.
During these ‘ Dark Ages ’ eastern Europe-like western Europe-regressed culturally and economically, although enclaves of prosperity and culture persisted along the coastal towns of the Adriatic and the major Greek cities in the south.
Greek merchants and clergy of Byzantine aristocratic origin, who acquired great economic prosperity and political influence, and were later known as Phanariotes, settled in the extreme northwestern district of Constantinople, which had become central to Greek interests after the establishment of the Patriarch's headquarters in 1461 ( shortly after Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque ).
It was while the Oenotrians were still masters of the land that the first Greek settlers arrived ; and the beauty of the climate and country, as well as the rapid prosperity attained by these first settlements, proved so attractive that within a few years the shores of Bruttium were completely encircled by a belt of Greek colonies, part of Magna Graecia.

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