10 sentences with 'continent'
Example sentences and phrases with the word continent and other words derived from it.
• « While the Spaniards were exploring America, the Portuguese were exploring Africa and considered the southernmost tip of that continent to be the Cape of Good Hope. But it is not. Cape Agulhas is located 65 kilometres further south than the former. »
• « On the other hand, Plato places Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean, "beyond the Pillars of Hercules", known today as the Strait of Gibraltar. He even speaks of a continent to the west of it. »
• « The famous authors of Return of the Warlocks and The Warlock Rebellion, Louis Powels and Jacques Bergier, claim that Atlantis was not a lost continent but an island, Thera, a Cretan colony in the Mediterranean, destroyed by the explosion of the Santorin volcano some 3,000 years before Christ, and all the technological and mystical paraphernalia attributed to it is nothing more than a myth sustained by mystery and its abrupt disappearance. »
• « The myth of Atlantis is still alive, even if neither the existence of the continent nor its exact location has been proven. »
• « There was a beneficial stabilisation of trade across the west-east axis of Eurasia as a continent, as Silk Road traders enjoyed a relatively peaceful and stable route. »
• « The end result of the English Reformation was that England and Scotland were divided between competing Christian factions, but very different from those in the British Isles compared to the more direct conflicts between Catholics and Protestants on the European continent. »
• « James I, inspired by events on the continent, sought to insist on the "royal prerogative", the right of the king to rule by force of will. »
• « Even as absolutism became the predominant mode of politics on the continent, Britain embarked on a different and opposite political trajectory. »
• « William of Orange had already been at war with Louis XIV before he came to England, and once he was king, Britain went to war with France in 1690 over colonial conflicts and Louis' constant attempts to seize territory on the continent. The result was more than twenty years of constant warfare from 1690 to 1714. »
• « Millions of people were torn from their homeland, transported to a foreign continent in appalling conditions, and worked to death or killed by their owners in the name of "discipline". »