7 sentences with 'fallen'
Example sentences and phrases with the word fallen and other words derived from it.
• « Why was it that the western empire had fallen into political fragmentation while the east remained rich, powerful and united? There are a few important reasons... »
• « Just as Rome had fallen in the west, Byzantium was beset by enemies all around it, enemies who had a depressing tendency to crush Byzantine armies and occasionally assassinate their emperors. »
• « Whatever their moral failings, the Popes restored Rome's importance as a city after it had fallen to a population of less than 25,000 during the Babylonian captivity. »
• « Thus, less than fifty years after Columbus' initial landing, the two major empires of Central and South America had fallen to the Spanish. »
• « Franco's regime, which united the old nobles, the army and the Catholic Church, controlled the country until Franco's death in 1975. Just as Spain was one of the last countries still tied to the old political order of kings and nobles after World War I, it was one of the last fascist countries long after Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy had fallen. »
• « By July 1943, the Allies were ready to take the fight to Italy itself. The French Vichy territories in North Africa had fallen after earlier ineffective resistance in November 1942, leading Hitler to order the complete occupation of France that same month; the fascist puppet state of the Vichy regime lasted only from June 1940 to November 1942. »