6 sentences with 'overland'
Example sentences and phrases with the word overland and other words derived from it.
• « During an ice age, humans travelled overland on the Bering land bridge, a piece of land that used to connect eastern Russia with Alaska, and reached the Americas. »
• « Although Sparta could not take Athens on its own, Athens was essentially under siege for decades; life went on, but it was usually impossible for Athenians to travel overland in Greece outside their home region of Attica. »
• « A Scottish engineer invented a way to pave roads cheaply in the 1830s, and in the 1850s a pan-European overland postal service was established that relied on "post roads" with stations for changing horses. »
• « To reach this place, the centre of a region sparsely populated by nomads, the best way to get there is by air; anyone travelling overland runs the risk of being robbed. »
• « But when the Silk Road, the long overland trade route from China to the Mediterranean, became more costly and dangerous to travel, Europeans sought a more efficient and cheaper trade route by water, initiating the development of what we now call the Atlantic World. »