9 sentences with 'globe'
Example sentences and phrases with the word globe and other words derived from it.
• « The voyage was thought to be feasible both because all educated people already accepted that the world was round (common knowledge since the days of ancient Greece) and because the circumference of the globe was not really clear to them: it was simply not known how long it would take to sail west to reach the Far East. »
• « The result was a dramatic expansion of European influence or direct control in areas of the globe where Europe had never before been an influence. »
• « The result: by 1800, approximately 35% of the globe was directly or indirectly controlled by European powers. How did this happen? The first part of the answer is simple: military technology and organisation. »
• « The major changes in world history during the early modern period have to do with the continuous contact between different regions of the globe that began with the (literally) misguided voyage of Columbus in 1492. »
• « In short, technology explains how European dominance grew from around 35% of the globe to more than 80% over the course of the 19th century. »
• « Approximately 25% of the surface of the globe was directly or indirectly controlled by the British after the First World War (1918). »
• « As a result, there was a continuous and elaborate diplomatic dance as each power tried to shore up alliances, seize territory around the globe, and outmanoeuvre the others. »
• « World War II was the defining disaster of the 20th century for millions of people around the world. It was the culmination of the vision of total war that the world had first encountered in the First World War, but it spread to vast swathes of the globe, not just parts of Europe, Africa and the Middle East. »
• « It is worth considering the fact that Europe had been, just a few years earlier, the most powerful region on Earth, ruling most of the surface of the globe. Now, after the Second World War, it was either under the heel of one superpower or dominated by the other, unable to make large-scale international political decisions without involvement in the wider conflict. »