10 sentences with 'invasions'
Example sentences and phrases with the word invasions and other words derived from it.
• « In the case of Egypt, this took the form of the first of a series of foreign invasions, that of the "Sea People", whose origins have never been determined despite concentrated scholarship on the question. »
• « However, from the early 1400 BCE onwards, a wave of invasions by the Mycenaeans to the north eventually extinguished Minoan independence. »
• « Even earlier, from 1207 BC onwards, there are indications that a series of invasions ravaged the entire eastern Mediterranean region. »
• « What is clear is that the invasions occurred over decades - from about 1180 to 1130 BC - and must have played an important role in the collapse of the Bronze Age political and economic system. »
• « The Mycenaeans disappeared as a civilisation at the end of the Bronze Age. The cause was probably a combination of foreign invasions and local rebellions and wars. »
• « The Roman Empire after its political division between east and west under Diocletian. From the 3rd to the 5th centuries AD, the eastern part of the empire became the real locus of power and wealth, and from the end of the 5th century, the entire western half "fell" to barbarian invasions. »
• « However, after his death, Byzantium again slowly lost its conquests in the west to another round of Germanic invasions, and the Persians also pressed steadily into the eastern territories. »
• « Indeed, Heraclius himself was forced to lead Byzantium during the first wave of Arab invasions, and despite his own leadership abilities vital territories such as Syria, Palestine and Egypt were lost during his own lifetime (he died in 641, the same year that most of Egypt was conquered by the Arabs). »
• « Meanwhile, a series of invasions began in the post-Carolingian era. Arab invaders called Saracens raided the lands of southern Europe, even conquering Sicily in the 9th century, while a new group of steppe raiders, the Magyars, swept across Europe in the 10th century, seizing land and settling in present-day Hungary. »
• « The Crusades were a series of invasions of the Middle East by Europeans in the name of Christianity. They continued, periodically, for centuries. »