11 sentences with 'destruction'
Example sentences and phrases with the word destruction and other words derived from it.
• « Plato attributes a description of Atlantis and its destruction to the Greek sage Solon, who was in Egypt around 560 BC. »
• « The destruction of Atlantis is said to have taken place around 9500 BC as a result of a maritime catastrophe that swallowed it, its inhabitants and its secrets. »
• « The real hammer blow of the Diaspora came in the 130s AD, when the Romans destroyed much of Jerusalem and forced almost all the Jews into exile - the word Diaspora itself means "dispersion", and with the destruction of the Jewish kingdom by Rome there would be no Jewish state again until the founding of the modern nation of Israel in 1948 AD. »
• « The Library of Alexandria was eventually destroyed, although to this day there are competing versions of the blame for its destruction (from the forces of Julius Caesar during his involvement in an Egyptian civil war to Christian or Muslim fanatics centuries later). »
• « In 66 CE there was a major uprising against Rome. It took the imperial forces four years to crush the uprising, resulting in the greatest disaster in ancient Jewish history: the permanent destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE. »
• « As a consequence of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, the Romans enslaved or deported much of the Jewish population, contributing to the phenomenon of the Jewish Diaspora, the people without a homeland united only by the Hebrew Bible, the teaching of the rabbis and Jewish cultural traditions. »
• « A note of nomenclature: this section will refer to the groups responsible for the destruction of the Western empire as barbarians when referring to Roman perceptions of Germanic and Central Asian groups. The aim is not to vilify these groups, but to underline the degree to which the Romans were both contemptuous and, it turns out, vulnerable to them. »
• « One aspect of Emperor Justinian's focus on Christian purification was the destruction of the ancient traditions of paganism in and around Greece initiated by his Christian predecessors. »
• « One of the greatest religious controversies in the history of Christianity was iconoclasm, the breaking or destruction of icons. »
• « Thus Leo III ordered the destruction of the sacred images, facing riots when workers tried to carry out his proclamation by removing the icons of Christ placed in the imperial palace. »
• « Fortunately for the areas conquered by the Mongols, however, under Genghis Khan's sons and grandsons this policy of destruction gave way to one of (often still vicious) economic exploitation and political domination. »