9 sentences with 'valley'
Example sentences and phrases with the word valley and other words derived from it.
• « The Egyptians themselves called the Nile valley "Kemet", the Black Earth, because of the annually renewed black earth that came with the flood. »
• « Egypt was divided between "Upper Egypt", the southern stretch of the Nile valley that depended on the Nile floods for irrigation, and "Lower Egypt", the huge delta region where the Nile meets the Mediterranean. »
• « Each year, the Spartans "declared war" on the colonists, ravaging their river valley, and part of the training of young Spartan men took place in the Krypteia, the Spartan secret police who infiltrated the icy villages to look for signs of rebellion. »
• « Alexander the Great headed east again with his armies, defeating the tribesmen of present-day Afghanistan and then fighting a huge battle against the forces of the Indian king Porus in the northern Indus River valley in 327 BC. »
• « Alexander the Great had heard of Indian kingdoms even further east (i.e. towards the valley of the Ganges River, completely unknown to the Greeks before this point) and, being Alexander, he wanted to conquer them too. »
• « However, to avoid the appearance of a retreat, Alexander the Great insisted that his armies fight up the Indus River valley and then through the southern part of the ancient Persian Empire on their way back to Mesopotamia. »
• « From the lower Rhine valley, the Franks gradually expanded into northern Gaul in the late 5th century. »
• « West Germany had extensive coal deposits, and by 1850 German industry was growing rapidly, especially in the Ruhr valley near the French border. »