Sentence examples for exact tribute from inspiring English sources
They exact tribute and dispense favors.
The king was able to enforce obedience from lesser groups and to exact tribute from them.
He united Java, extended his influence over Sumatra, and resisted Mongol attempts to exact tribute from his kingdom.
The prelates, too, saw their missions as means to found ecclesiastical empires of subject dioceses that would exact tribute from the conquered Wends.
With the advent of the 11th dynasty (2081), however, Egypt recovered its strength and pressed southward into Nubia, at first sending only sporadic expeditions to exact tribute but by the 12th dynasty (1938 1756) effectively occupying Nubia as far south as Semna.
From 1515, elected representatives of each cabildo formed a body that defended local interests before the royal council, especially on such matters as slave trading and the semifeudal encomienda system, which granted conquistadors control over the Indians in specified areas and the right to exact tribute from them.
Perhaps employing the fleet of his friend Polycrates, Amasis reputedly subdued Cyprus, exacting tribute from it.
In 868 bce Ashurnasirpal II reached the Mediterranean and exacted tribute from the Phoenician cities.
He fought successfully against other nations and exacted tribute from the Ammonites.
In 1405 33 the renowned admiral Zheng He led voyages for the purpose of exacting tribute and extending Chinese political influence in the Indian Ocean.
In the 1860s and '70s the Ngoni came to dominate the Nsenga and exacted tribute, settled in their area, intermarried, and assumed their language and culture.
