6 sentences with “backward”

During the three-day reunion, time seemed to turn backward.

Russia went from a backward and politically fractured region to a powerful and increasingly centralised state under its Tsar Peter the Great.

All other civilisations were, according to this model, considered hopelessly backward or stuck at an earlier stage of cultural or even biological evolution.

There was also the fact that the extension of low tariffs from Piedmont to the economically backward regions often completely wiped out the few local industries that existed.

Despite having lost the opulence and much of the learning of Rome, medieval Europe was not a static and completely backward place. Instead, it slowly but surely built an entirely new form of society in place of what it had been.

As noted in the absolutism debate, the Prussian royal line, the Hohenzollerns, oversaw Prussia's transformation from a poor, backward collection of lands in northern Germania into a military great power, essentially putting all state expenditure into the pursuit of military perfection.