8 sentences with 'southern'
Example sentences and phrases with the word southern and other words derived from it.
• « The summer over, he joined the Westinghouse Company, and was engaged in traveling the southern Michigan countryside as an operator and repairman of the Westinghouse Company's machines. »
• « Early Homo sapiens painted on cave walls, especially in what is now southern France, and at some point also began the practice of burying the dead in prepared graves, indicating that they believed that the spirit somehow survived physical death. »
• « The southern region of Mesopotamia, Sumer, has an elevation gradient of only 50 metres over a distance of about 500 kilometres, meaning that the riverbeds of both rivers would have shifted and spread across the plains in the annual floods. »
• « The result of these new hierarchies were the first true cities that emerged in the southern region of Sumer. »
• « Egypt was divided between "Upper Egypt", the southern stretch of the Nile valley that depended on the Nile floods for irrigation, and "Lower Egypt", the huge delta region where the Nile meets the Mediterranean. »
• « The southern kingdom of Judah was poorer, smaller and more conservative; it was in Judah that the Prophetic Movement was born. »
• « From about 700 BCE, the Spartans conquered a large swathe of territory in their home region of Greece, the southern Greek peninsula called the Peloponnese. »
• « In 415 BC Athens suffered a disaster when a young general persuaded the Athenians to send thousands of troops against the city of Syracuse (a Spartan ally) in southern Sicily, hundreds of miles from Greece itself, in the hope of sacking it. »