8 sentences with 'deserts'

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• « Wind erosion is a common phenomenon in deserts. »

• « The hyena adapted to live in different habitats, from deserts to jungles. »

• « Camels enabled Arab armies to cross deserts and launch sudden attacks on their enemies, often catching them by surprise. »

• « Beyond that strip of land were deserts populated by people whom the Egyptians simply dismissed as 'bandits', i.e. nomads and tribal groups, not just robbers. »

• « The consequences of this alteration of the environment are widespread droughts, the advance of deserts wherever there is a dry river bed, loss of fish resources, soil erosion. »

• « In one of the greatest crimes of the war, Turkish forces drove hundreds of thousands of Armenians from their homes across deserts to die of abuse, exhaustion, hunger and thirst when they were not slaughtered on the spot. »

• « In the deserts outside the major cities, a group called the Essenes emphasised a life of asceticism and mysticism, while throughout Palestine anti-Roman revolutionaries known as the Zealots advocated an armed revolt against the Roman occupier. »

• « The most horrific violence of the Turkish revolution was directed at the Armenian minority, with more than a million Armenians forced into the deserts or killed outright. Although the Turkish state refuses to acknowledge it to this day, historians have long recognised that the Armenian massacres amounted to full-scale genocide. »

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