9 sentences with 'devastated'
Example sentences and phrases with the word devastated and other words derived from it.
• « Italy was devastated; it was the Byzantine invasion, not the earlier "fall of Rome", that crippled the Italian economy until the late Middle Ages. »
• « In 726, a volcano devastated the island of Santorini in the Aegean Sea. Leo III took this as proof that the veneration of icons had gone too far, as some of his religious advisors had told him. »
• « Unfortunately for the Turkish dynasties of the time and for millions of ordinary people throughout the Middle East, the Mongol invasions of the 13th century devastated much of the region. »
• « However, the Mongols are entirely relevant to the history of Western civilisation, both because they devastated the kingdoms of the Middle East at the time and because they eventually laid the foundations for the history of early Russia. »
• « The Mongol horde often devastated the lands it conquered. Some, like the Central Asian kingdom of Khwarizm, were so devastated that the areas it encompassed never fully recovered. »
• « The plague devastated the affected areas, none more so than in Europe. This devastation was largely due to the vulnerability of the European population to the disease, thanks to both poor harvests and a lack of medical know-how. »
• « Between 1503 and 1533, one by one, the cities became territories or puppets of one or other of the great powers, and in the process the Italian countryside was devastated and the cities' financial resources depleted. »
• « In contrast, Louis XIV financially devastated the French government with his wars, despite the efforts of his intendants and other royal officials to squeeze every drop of tax revenue they could from the huge and prosperous kingdom. »