10 sentences with 'existed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word existed and other words derived from it.
• « The confusion about whether the Musketeers really existed is due to the fact that, like many writers, Dumas was inspired by historical figures to create the characters in the novel. »
• « Thus, humans have existed all over the world for many thousands of years. Human civilisation, however, has not. »
• « 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. »
• « The first settlements straddling the line between "cities" and true "cities" existed around 4000 BC, but a truly urban society in Mesopotamia was established closer to 3000 BC, with a few dozen city-states managing the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates. »
• « The idea was that divine harmony existed only in Egypt and had to be brought to the rest of the world, by force if necessary. »
• « Even the largest of the Bronze Age empires existed in a state of relative precariousness, relying on regular harvests to not only feed their populations, but also to sustain the governments, armies and building projects of their states as a whole. »
• « After the defeat of the Persians, the Athenians created the Delian League, in theory a defensive coalition that existed to defend against Persia and to liberate the Ionian colonies that were still under Persian control, but in reality a political instrument that Athens eventually used to create its own empire. »
• « At the time, no other member of the League could do anything about it, since the League existed as an Athenian-controlled empire, pumping money into Athenian coffers and allowing Athens to build some of its most famous and beautiful buildings. »
• « The key question that arose among the early Greek philosophers was whether the rules of ethics and political institutions as they existed in Greece - including everything from the polis, democracy, tyranny, Greek norms of behaviour, etc. - were somehow dictated by nature or whether, on the contrary, they were simply social customs that had arisen over time. »