9 sentences with “attempted”

Explorers attempted, but were unsuccessful, to circumnavigate Africa itself.

He attempted to focus all the worship of the Egyptian people on one aspect of the sun god Ra, called Aten.

In the provinces, entire regions revolted when royal servants showed up and attempted to destroy the icons.

Anaximander created the first known map of the world that attempted to accurately represent distances and relationships between places.

Akhenaten's attempted revolution was a disaster. In the eyes of the common people and later pharaohs, it had fundamentally undermined the very stability of Egypt.

The Arabs conquered Syria and seized Byzantine territory in Anatolia just as quickly: Egypt was conquered in 642, with an attempted Byzantine counter-attack repulsed in 645.

Although the office of dictator could easily have led to an attempted takeover, for hundreds of years very few dictators abused their powers and instead respected the temporary nature of the Roman dictatorship itself.

Historians do not know why he attempted this religious revolution, but one reasonable theory is that he was trying to reduce the power of the priests, who had become increasingly rich and powerful over the centuries at the expense of the pharaohs themselves.

Although the Seleucid dynasty attempted to model itself on both Greek traditions of rule and the earlier Persian dynasty of the Achaemenids (Darius III was the last of that dynasty to rule), it never established legitimacy in the eyes of many of its subjects.