8 sentences with “decline”

The decline of the Bronze Age led to the beginning of the Iron Age.

Her lung function continued to decline, and by February 1995 it was below 95 percent.

Of course, at the time, few would have realised that the empire faced long-term decline.

Whatever the cause, the decline of the Mycenaeans occurred around 1100 BC, marking the beginning of what historians call the Dark Ages in Greek history.

Augustine of Hippo lived through the worst period of Roman decline, completing his work while his own city was under siege by a Germanic group called the Vandals.

When Rome fell to Germanic invaders in the mid-fifth century, the decline of organised learning began - there was simply no funding from Roman elites for what had been a robust system of public schools.

In fact, the period between the end of the five good emperors and the collapse of Rome was far more complex than that of simple decline and weakness, and even when the city of Rome was unable to defend itself, Roman civilisation left a huge and permanent impression on Western civilisation.

After the fall of the Western Empire, the new Germanic kings recognised the authority of the emperor in Constantinople. They were formally his vassals (lords in his service) and he remained the emperor of the entire Roman Empire in name. At least until the Byzantine Empire began to decline in the 7th century, this was not just a convenient fiction.