10 sentences with 'collapsed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word collapsed and other words derived from it.
• « Full of anguish, Nenita climbed over the collapsed door of the house and smelled the smell of scorched flesh and hair. Holding up the lamp, she surveyed the devastation. There was no sign of her daughter. »
• « Around 2200 BC, two hundred years after the last pyramids were built, the Old Kingdom collapsed, giving rise to the First Intermediate Period. The reason for the collapse is unclear, but it probably had to do with the very rare occurrence of droughts. »
• « The New Egyptian Kingdom collapsed around 1150 BCE. This collapse was part of a much larger pattern across the ancient Middle East and North Africa: the collapse of the Bronze Age itself. »
• « The great empires collapsed, a collapse from which it took some 100 years to recover, with new empires emerging as a consequence. »
• « Mycenaean civilisation collapsed completely, giving rise to a Greek 'dark age' that lasted some three centuries. »
• « Probably because of their extreme focus on militarism, the Assyrians were able to maintain their major cities while the states around them collapsed. »
• « Once the Western Empire collapsed, the church was the only institution that still supported schooling (including basic literacy), but over time literacy and education levels in Europe declined unquestionably. »
• « The entire army of Britain left in 407 AD, when another ambitious general tried to seize the imperial throne, and Roman power there quickly collapsed. »