10 sentences with 'cities'
Example sentences and phrases with the word cities and other words derived from it.
• « Poor hygienic conditions, common to all the cities of Europe in the first millennium, were the common cause of the terrible plagues that decimated their inhabitants. »
• « - Cities: note that in English, the very word "civilisation" is closely related to the word "civic", meaning "having to do with cities" as in "civic government" or "civic duty". »
• « - Large-scale warfare: Even before there were large cities, early towns were built with fortifications to ward off attackers. It is very likely that the first kings were war leaders allied with priests. »
• « The Mesopotamians were the first to conquer and rule many different cities and "peoples" at once. »
• « However, up to that point in history, cities had not been possible because there was never enough food to sustain a large group staying in one place for very long. »
• « Some of the first settlements that were large enough to be towns or even small cities were Jericho in Palestine, which existed around 8000 BC, and Çatal Höyük in Turkey, which existed around 7500 BC. »
• « Thus, the world's first cities may have been born not just from agriculture, but from the need to manage the natural resource of water. »
• « Also, the threat of invasion from both rival cities and foreigners (both 'barbarians' and more organised groups) threatened to disrupt whatever stability existed. »