8 sentences with “east”

Behind us to the east was a rainbow, to the south was a patch of blue sky, and above us was a thundercloud.

From Egypt, the Greek armies moved east, defeating the Persians in two more major battles, culminating in 330 BC when they took Persepolis, the Persian capital.

He then crossed the English Channel, eventually circumnavigating England and Scotland, then sailed east to (probably) Denmark, and finally returned home to Massalia.

If the area that includes Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Israel-Palestine, and Egypt is somewhere called the "Middle" or "Near" East, doesn't that imply that it is just east of something else?

I am in the Healesville Biological Reserve, 65 kilometres east of Melbourne, Australia, and this is my first encounter with the world's largest carnivorous marsupial, also known as the sarcophagus, the Tasmanian Devil.

In fact, we get the original term from Greece. Greece is the central point, the eastern Balkan Peninsula was to the east, the western Balkans was to the west, and the Greeks were at the centre of their self-understood world.

Although the Phoenicians played an important role in initiating long-distance trade after the collapse of the Bronze Age, they did not create a strong united state. However, such a state emerged further east: only the Assyrian kingdom of northern Mesopotamia, the only one of the major Bronze Age states, survived.

So one of the central themes of Western Civilisation is that from its inception, that the east is to the east of Greece and the west is to the west of Greece, and that the world is divided between Greeks and barbarians, there was an idea of who is central and superior, and who is on the margins and inferior (or at least not part of the best version of culture).