7 sentences with “crumbled”

In 1759, the British took Quebec, and in 1760, Montreal. The French empire in North America had crumbled.

When Alexander the Great died, his empire crumbled, partly because he did not say which of his generals would take over after his death.

Although the Western Roman Empire had crumbled by 476 CE, the great cities of Italy survived in better shape than Roman cities elsewhere in the empire.

In 1989, the Eastern Bloc communist regimes crumbled as it became clear that the USSR would not intervene militarily to prop them up as it had done in the past.

As the Western powers opened diplomacy and then trade with the Japanese shogunate, a period of chaos gripped Japan as the centuries-old political order crumbled.

The ancient Roman province of Gaul is the heart of modern-day France, ruled after the fall of Rome by the Franks, a powerful Germanic people who invaded Gaul from across the Rhine when Roman power crumbled.

The USSR itself crumbled in 1991, torn apart by nationalist movements within its borders, as Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs and other national minorities in the USSR demanded independence from Russian rule.