8 sentences with 'spreading'
Example sentences and phrases with the word spreading and other words derived from it.
• « Urban civilisation eventually flourished in both regions, beginning in Sumer but spreading rapidly northward. »
• « Simultaneously, the Avars and Bulgars, steppe peoples related to the Huns, were pressing on Byzantine territory from the north, and piracy was spreading across the Mediterranean. »
• « With the subsequent invasions of South and Central America by the Spanish, the crusading spirit of spreading Catholicism and seizing territory at the point of the sword lived on. »
• « However, beginning in mid-13th century Eastern Europe, and spreading to Western Europe in the 14th century, a series of crises undermined European prosperity, security and population levels. Historians refer to these events as the "crises of the Middle Ages". »
• « Europeans did not understand contagion, they knew the disease was spreading, but had no idea how to prevent it. »
• « The Renaissance was a period of innovation in culture, art and learning that took place between the 14th and 16th centuries, beginning in Italy and then spreading to various other parts of Europe. »
• « Beginning in France, but quickly spreading to Prussia, Austria, the smaller German kingdoms and regions such as Italy and Hungary, coalitions rose up and temporarily succeeded in driving their monarchs from their capitals (as in Paris) or forcing their monarchs to agree to streamlined constitutions and legal systems (as in Prussia and Austria). »