7 sentences with 'descended'
Example sentences and phrases with the word descended and other words derived from it.
• « In fact, a year after Alexander the Great's death the empire descended into civil war, and it took until 280 BC for the fighting to cease and for three great kingdoms to be established, founded by the generals Antigonus, Ptolemy and Seleucus. »
• « The Umayyads fell from power in 750 because of a revolutionary uprising against their rule led by the Abbasids, a clan descended from Muhammad's uncle. The Abbasids were supported by many non-Arab but Muslim subjects of the caliphate (called mawali) who resented the fact that the Umayyads had always protected the status of Arabs at the expense of non-Arab Muslims in their empire. »
• « However, the raids began again and in 1066 William the Conqueror, a Viking king descended from Normandy in northern France, invaded and defeated the Anglo-Saxon king and instituted Norman rule. »
• « A different line, not directly descended from the Carolingians, eventually came to power in eastern France. Their king, Otto I, was crowned emperor in 962 by the Pope, thus cementing the idea of the Holy Roman Empire even after Charlemagne's bloodline no longer ruled it. »
• « The Bible did not explain the origins of the Amerindians, so the Spanish invented various hypotheses: Native Americans were descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel described in the Bible's Old Testament, they were somehow created and ruled by the Devil, they were simply not human beings but strange human-like animals, and so on. »
• « In Britain, the latter were called the gentry and controlled the House of Commons in parliament; the House of Lords was occupied by the "peers of the realm", the elite noble families often descended from the ancient Normans. »