14 sentences with 'colonies'
Example sentences and phrases with the word colonies and other words derived from it.
• « The Phoenicians established colonies all along the shores of the Mediterranean, where they provided anchors in a new international trade network that eventually replaced the one destroyed with the fall of the Bronze Age. »
• « The Archaic Age saw the revival of sustained contact with foreign cultures, beginning with the development of Greek colonies on the Greek islands and on the west coast of Anatolia; »
• « In time, Greek colonies spread across the Mediterranean to Spain in the west and the shores of the Black Sea in the north. »
• « The Greeks founded colonies on the North African coast and on the islands of the Mediterranean, especially Sicily. »
• « Thus, although they had been defeated, most of the Greeks in the colonies did not experience Persian rule as particularly oppressive. »
• « Darius was also interested in seizing more territory to the west, conquering the remaining Greek colonies on the Anatolian coast. »
• « During his campaigns, Alexander the Great founded numerous new cities that were to be colonies for his victorious Greek soldiers, all of them named Alexandria, except for those he named after his horse, Bucephalus, and his dog, Peritas. »
• « For nearly 100 years, Greeks and Macedonians came to these colonies, leading to a tremendous growth of Greek culture throughout the ancient world. They also came to settle in conquered Persian cities. »
• « Both areas were depopulated by wars; many thousands of soldiers and their families migrated to the new military colonies established by Alexander the Great, weakening Greece and, of course, its tributary base. »
• « Rome was also on the route between the Greek colonies of southern Italy and various Italian cultures in the central and northern part of the peninsula. »
• « Those regions, populated largely by Greeks who had founded colonies there centuries earlier, invited a Greek warrior king named Pyrrhus to help them against the Romans around 280 BC. »
• « Initially, the Etruscans formed a conduit for trade and cultural exchange, but soon the Romans were trading directly with the Greeks, as well as with the various Greek colonies throughout the Mediterranean. »
• « The main benefits of service were a large bonus paid on retirement (equivalent to 13 years' pay!) and land: military colonies scattered throughout the empire ensured that a loyal soldier could expect to establish a prosperous family line if he lived that long. »