10 sentences with 'united'
Example sentences and phrases with the word united and other words derived from it.
• « Likewise, the sea that separated and united the Greeks and their neighbours, including the Egyptians and Persians, is still called the Mediterranean, meaning "sea in the middle of the earth" (though in Latin, not Greek - we get the word from a later "Western" civilisation, the Romans). »
• « Nor was there ever a united Greek empire: there was a great Greek civilisation when Alexander the Great conquered what he thought was most of the world, stretching from Greece itself through Egypt, the Middle East, to western India, but it collapsed into warring kingdoms after his death. »
• « However, the empires he left behind united in important ways, using Greek as one of their languages, employing Greek architecture in their buildings, making Greek-style plays and, of course, trading with each other. »
• « The Old Kingdom united Egypt under a single ruling house, developed systems of record-keeping, and formed an important caste of scribes, the royal bureaucrats who mastered hieroglyphic writing. »
• « Along with their neighbours the Hebrews, the most important of the ancient Canaanites were the Phoenicians, whose cities (politically independent but united in culture and language) were centred in modern-day Lebanon. »
• « Although the Phoenicians played an important role in initiating long-distance trade after the collapse of the Bronze Age, they did not create a strong united state. However, such a state emerged further east: only the Assyrian kingdom of northern Mesopotamia, the only one of the major Bronze Age states, survived. »
• « They also created the zodiac used to this day in astrology, reflecting the ancient practice of both science and "magic" that were united in the minds of the Mesopotamians. »
• « However, there is no historical or archaeological evidence to suggest a single unified religion in Israel or Judah during the period of the united Hebrew monarchy or the post-Solomonic division between Israel and Judah (the Hebrew Bible itself was written centuries later). »
• « The polis also invented institutions that united the cities culturally, despite their political independence, the most important of these being the Panhellenic games. »