6 sentences with 'culminated'
Example sentences and phrases with the word culminated and other words derived from it.
• « This eastward shift culminated in the transfer of the capital of the empire from the city of Rome to the Greek city of Byzantium, renamed Constantinople after the empire that ordered the move: Constantine. »
• « The Assyrian conquests culminated in 671 BC when King Esarhaddon (r. 681-668 BC) invaded Egypt and conquered not only the entire Egyptian kingdom, but also northern Nubia. This was the first time in history that the two founding river valleys of the ancient civilisation, those of the Nile and Mesopotamia, were under the control of a single political entity. »
• « However, from the 6th century BC onwards, some Greek colonies fell under the domination of the greatest empire the world had ever seen, and a series of events culminated in a full-scale war between the Greeks and that empire: Persia. »
• « Caligula made a tactically insignificant invasion of northern Gaul that culminated in a Triumph (military parade, traditionally one of the greatest displays of power and glory by a victorious general) back in Rome. »
• « An example of this was the Goths, settled at that time somewhere in present-day Romania, whom Constantine punished severely after they turned against his forces during his war of conquest that culminated in 312 AD. »
• « From the late 8th century onwards, the Anglo-Saxons suffered waves of Viking raids that culminated in the establishment of a full-blown Viking kingdom in what had been the Anglo-Saxon territory of eastern England. »