8 sentences with 'wars'
Example sentences and phrases with the word wars and other words derived from it.
• « Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba was a Spanish general who distinguished himself in an extraordinary way in the wars of Granada, at the side of the Catholic Monarchs. »
• « The West's self-understanding as the most 'civilised' culture had imploded with the world wars, but the inventors of Western Civilisation as a concept were determined not only to rescue its legacy from that implosion, but to celebrate it as the only major historical legacy of relevance to the present. »
• « Although wars were relatively frequent, most interactions between states and cultures at the time were peaceful and revolved around trade and diplomacy. »
• « The period of political breakdown in Mesopotamia following the collapse of the Bronze Age ended around 880 BC when the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II began a series of wars to conquer Mesopotamia and Canaan. »
• « The great contrast in the Classical Age was between the power and splendour of the Greek polis, especially Athens and Sparta, and the wars and conflicts that erupted as they sought to expand their power and control. »
• « The true legacy of Hellenistic civilisation was not Alexander the Great's wars, remarkable as they were, but their aftermath. »
• « Both areas were depopulated by wars; many thousands of soldiers and their families migrated to the new military colonies established by Alexander the Great, weakening Greece and, of course, its tributary base. »
• « Mithridates went on to fight a total of three wars against Rome, but despite his tenacity he was finally defeated and killed in 63 BCE, the same year that Rome extinguished the last pitiful vestiges of the Seleucid kingdom. »