8 sentences with 'origins'
Example sentences and phrases with the word origins and other words derived from it.
• « The origins of pizza date back some 6000 years, when the Egyptians discovered yeast and sourdough. »
• « While many textbooks on traditional Western civilisation start with Greece, this book does not. That's because civilisation is not Greek in its origins. »
• « One theory about the origins of large-scale settlement is that when enough villages came together to work on these hydrological systems, they needed some form of leadership to direct the efforts, leading to systems of governance and administration. »
• « He boasted of his humble origins and claimed to protect and represent the interests of the common people and merchants. »
• « In the case of Egypt, this took the form of the first of a series of foreign invasions, that of the "Sea People", whose origins have never been determined despite concentrated scholarship on the question. »
• « The Babylonian empire founded by Hammurabi was overthrown by the Kassites (whose origins are unknown) in 1595 BC, the conquest following a Hittite invasion that sacked Babylon but did not stay to rule it. »
• « It should be noted that the approach taken here is that of secular historical scholarship: what is known about the historical origins of Judaism, Christianity and Islam based on empirical research by historians and archaeologists. »