8 sentences with 'descent'
Example sentences and phrases with the word descent and other words derived from it.
• « By 1900, almost anyone of European descent would have claimed to be part of a distinct and superior "race" whose global dominance was simply part of their collective birthright. »
• « It was against the backdrop of this descent into what Europeans and Americans often called "barbarism" - the old antithesis of the "true" civilisation that began with the Greeks - that the history of Western civilisation first emerged as a textbook subject and, soon, as a mainstay of university curricula. »
• « Cyrus II established his authority on two principles: descent from other great kings and the favour of the gods. »
• « Cyrus II was the living representative of a supreme royal line of descent and an ensis in the Mesopotamian sense: the agent of the patron god on earth. »
• « The Arabs of the time were organised tribally, with tribes claiming descent from common ancestors and ruling through gatherings of the patriarchs of each clan. »
• « This descent into subsistence had occurred for a number of reasons over the course of the previous centuries. The fall of Rome's western empire had strangled the manufacture and trade of high-quality consumer goods (a trade that had been extensive in Rome). »