7 sentences with 'expanded'
Example sentences and phrases with the word expanded and other words derived from it.
• « Over the course of some five centuries, the Romans expanded from the city of Rome in the centre of the Italian peninsula to rule an empire that stretched from Britain to Spain and from North Africa to Persia (modern-day Iran). »
• « As noted, the Romans did not use the term "Western civilisation" and as their empire expanded, even the connection between Roman identity and Italy itself weakened. »
• « The irony of this period is that Egypt's economy diversified and expanded. It seems to have been a time when a new elite commissioned royal-inspired goods and thus supported the emerging craftsmen. »
• « The Hittite empire expanded rapidly on the basis of a flourishing Bronze Age economy, expanding from Anatolia to conquer territory in Mesopotamia, Syria and Canaan, eventually clashing with the New Kingdom of Egypt. »
• « When the Assyrian Empire expanded beyond Mesopotamia, it first conquered Israel, and then finally destroyed it completely when the Israelites rose up against them (this occurred in 722 BCE). »
• « Darius I worked to change that. He expanded the empire further and, more importantly, consolidated royal power. »