5 sentences with 'subcontinent'
Example sentences and phrases with the word subcontinent and other words derived from it.
• « A learned person (almost always a member of the Church in this period) in England could still correspond with a learned person in Spain or Italy, but that correspondence was in Latin. He could not speak to his counterpart on the other side of the subcontinent, but he would share this written language. »
• « The Mughal Empire that ruled much of the subcontinent at the beginning of the period of British expansion was in rapid decline by the early 18th century, long before the British controlled much of the territory, and was replaced by many small states in place of a large and powerful one when it finally collapsed in 1739. »
• « The result was that the English East India Company, a private corporation backed by the British state, controlled almost the entire Indian subcontinent by the mid-19th century. »
• « Through long, slow territorial expansion and unilateral treaties with Indian princes, the British East India Company ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent by 1840. »
• « However, the divisions of the Cold War were perhaps stronger in Europe than anywhere else, because the European subcontinent was divided geographically along Cold War lines: in the west the predominant political and economic pattern was a combination of democracy and regulated market capitalism, while in the east it was one of communist domination and command economies dominated by the Soviet Union. »