7 sentences with 'independently'
Example sentences and phrases with the word independently and other words derived from it.
• « For example, agriculture developed independently in China by 5000 BC, and of course agriculture in the Americas (starting in western South America) had nothing to do with its earlier invention in the Fertile Crescent. »
• « In the end, however, the Babylonians were the last of the great ancient Mesopotamian empires to exist independently. »
• « Women could not hold public office, nor could they legally own property or defend themselves independently in court. »
• « Legally, women in the Middle Ages could inherit and own property independently, and in most cases retained control of the dowry brought into the marriage. »
• « The only Persian industry that generated wealth independently of east-west trade was silk: under Shah Abbas I the state established a royal silk monopoly that produced most of the state's tax revenue, and when that monopoly collapsed due to the incompetence of his descendants the state struggled to stay afloat financially. »
• « In the late 19th century, a Frenchman (Emile Durkheim) and a German (Max Weber) independently initiated the academic discipline that would become sociology: the systematic study of the behaviour of people in complex societies. »