9 sentences with 'borders'
Example sentences and phrases with the word borders and other words derived from it.
• « That said, by the time of the Middle Kingdom, there was an organised and fortified military presence on all of Egypt's borders, with a particular focus on Nubia and 'Asia' (i.e. everything east of the Sinai Peninsula). »
• « The Assyrians were shaped by their environment. Their region in northern Mesopotamia, Ashur, had no natural borders, and therefore they needed a strong army to survive; they were constantly forced to fight against other civilised peoples from the west and south, and against barbarians from the north. »
• « By the time of the reign of the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pilezer III (r. 745 - 727 BC), the Assyrians had shifted their borders to the Mediterranean in the west and Persia (present-day Iran) in the east. »
• « In other words, the entire expanse of land stretching from the borders of India to Greece, including almost all the cultures described in the previous chapters, were all conquered and controlled by the Persians. »
• « Alexander the Great declared that the ancient city of Babylon would be his new capital. However, although he now ruled the largest empire in the world, he was not satisfied, and set out to conquer the lands his new Persian subjects told him about beyond the borders of the empire. »
• « The Roman Empire encompassed most of England as far as Germany and Romania, all of North Africa from present-day Morocco, and extended to the borders of the Persian Empire. »
• « Beyond these borders there were "barbarians" of various kinds; as far as the Romans were concerned, there were no civilised people outside their borders except the Persians. »
• « As far as the Romans were concerned, there were only two things beyond these borders: to the north and northeast, endless expanses of inhospitable land and semi-human barbarians like the Germanic tribes, and to the east, the only other civilisation Rome was prepared to recognise: the Persians, ruled first by the Parthians and then by the Sassanids. »
• « Rome suffered a half-century of crisis in the mid-3rd century AD. Beset along its borders and hobbled by constant internal strife, the empire was in real danger of collapse for decades. »