6 sentences with “initiating”

The federal government funded this important artery westward, initiating the creation of a transportation infrastructure for the benefit of settlers and farmers. Other entities built tolls, which (as today) charged fees for its use.

But when the Silk Road, the long overland trade route from China to the Mediterranean, became more costly and dangerous to travel, Europeans sought a more efficient and cheaper trade route by water, initiating the development of what we now call the Atlantic World.

Isabel, motivated by a strong religious zeal, was instrumental in initiating the Inquisition in 1480, a brutal campaign to eradicate Jews and Muslims who had ostensibly converted to Christianity but secretly continued to practise their faith, as well as other heretics.

His "grand strategy" was to seize territory from Habsburg Spain and Habsburg Austria by initiating a series of wars; he planned to force conquered populations to help pay for the wars and ultimately hoped to expand France to the Pyrenees in the south and the Rhine in the east.

Although the Phoenicians played an important role in initiating long-distance trade after the collapse of the Bronze Age, they did not create a strong united state. However, such a state emerged further east: only the Assyrian kingdom of northern Mesopotamia, the only one of the major Bronze Age states, survived.

The Holocaust was one of the great traumas associated with the Second World War. It forced the Western world to confront the fact that a highly advanced and "civilised" nation in the heart of Europe - Germany - had been responsible not only for initiating a horrific and bloody war, but for carrying out the systematic murder of millions of completely innocent people.