6 sentences with “overarching”

Although the area had no overarching political structure, long-distance trade helped spread the culture.

Without a dominant centralised power or an overarching cultural centre, Europe experienced political and military discord during this time.

Hellenistic civilisation demonstrates the fact that Western civilisation has always been a mixture of different peoples, not a single overarching group or language or religion.

History, from the postmodern perspective, has no overarching narrative: things simply change, and those changes generally revolve around the deployment of social and economic power.

Simultaneously, the Cold War became the overarching framework for conflict around the world, sometimes playing a central role in the internal conflicts of countries hundreds or even thousands of kilometres away from any of the superpowers themselves.

Germania was divided politically among hundreds of independent kingdoms, city-states, church lands and territories. Its single overarching political identity took the form of the most peculiar of all early modern European states: the Holy Roman Empire.