10 sentences with 'invaded'
Example sentences and phrases with the word invaded and other words derived from it.
• « The Assyrian conquests culminated in 671 BC when King Esarhaddon (r. 681-668 BC) invaded Egypt and conquered not only the entire Egyptian kingdom, but also northern Nubia. This was the first time in history that the two founding river valleys of the ancient civilisation, those of the Nile and Mesopotamia, were under the control of a single political entity. »
• « The Spartans and their allies repeatedly invaded Athenian territory, but the Athenians were smart enough to build strong fortifications that kept the Spartans at bay. »
• « Macedonia was also surrounded by nomadic peoples to the north, particularly the Thracians (from present-day Bulgaria), who repeatedly invaded and had to be repelled. »
• « Alexander the Great immediately embarked on his father's mission to attack Persia, leading a relatively small army (of about 45,000 men) into Persian territory - note how much smaller this army was than the Persian army had been a century earlier, when Xerxes I had invaded with over 200,000 soldiers. »
• « Julius Caesar's forces even invaded England, establishing a Roman territory there that lasted for centuries. »
• « All the lands Julius Caesar invaded were so thoroughly conquered that the descendants of the Celts ended up speaking Latin-based languages, such as French, instead of their native Celtic dialects. »
• « The Huns had much in common with other groups of steppe peoples such as the Scythians, who had invaded civilised lands since the very rise of civilisation in Mesopotamia. »
• « In 406 CE a bitterly cold winter froze the Rhine River, and armies of barbarians invaded (literally walking across the frozen river in some cases), bypassing traditional Roman defences. »
• « Some historians have speculated that Theodoric and the Goths might have been able to forge a new stable Empire in the west and thus prevent the coming of the "Dark Ages", but that possibility was cut short when the Byzantine Empire invaded to try to reconquer its lost territory. »
• « A people known as the Avars invaded from the north in the 6th century and raided not only the Balkans but all of Europe, reaching as far as the newly created Frankish kingdom in present-day France. »