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Short, simple sentences with “western”, suitable for children and primary/elementary school, with common expressions and related words. You'll also find examples for middle and high school.
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The most important of these highways was called the Royal Road, which linked the empire from western Anatolia to the Persian capital of Susa, just east of the Tigris.
Lydia, a kingdom in western Anatolia, controlled important sources of gold (giving rise to the Greek legend of King Midas, who turned everything he touched into gold).
Even with its overall military superiority, the Persian empire could not concentrate its full strength against the Greeks until much of the western empire had already been lost.
However, Rome did not collapse and, in fact, enjoyed a resurgence that held the Roman state together until the end of the 5th century (the western half of the Empire 'fell' in 476 CE).
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 fact, we get the original term from Greece. Greece is the central point, the eastern Balkan Peninsula was to the east, the western Balkans was to the west, and the Greeks were at the centre of their self-understood world.
In 332 BC, the Persian king Darius III tried to make peace with Alexander and (supposedly - there is reason to believe that this episode was invented by Greek propagandists later) offered him his daughter in marriage, along with the entire western half of the Persian Empire.
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