6 sentences with 'towns'
Example sentences and phrases with the word towns and other words derived from it.
• « - Large-scale warfare: Even before there were large cities, early towns were built with fortifications to ward off attackers. It is very likely that the first kings were war leaders allied with priests. »
• « Some of the first settlements that were large enough to be towns or even small cities were Jericho in Palestine, which existed around 8000 BC, and Çatal Höyük in Turkey, which existed around 7500 BC. »
• « The Assyrians deported entire villages or even small towns when they defied the will of the Assyrian kings, resettling conquered peoples as indentured labourers far from their homelands. »
• « In the 5th century BC, some of Macedonia's largest towns grew large enough to be considered cities, and elite Macedonians strove to civilise their country in the style of the southern Greeks. »
• « Outside the monasteries, churches were built in virtually every town and village (and many small towns) in the Roman sphere of influence. »