10 sentences with 'rebellion'

Example sentences and phrases with the word rebellion and other words derived from it.

« Soon after, a Babylonian king, Nabopolassar, led a rebellion that eventually led to the sack of Nineveh, the Assyrian capital. »
« Less than 100 years after their successful rebellion against the Assyrians, the Babylonians were conquered by what became the greatest empire of the ancient world to date: the Persians. »
« In Judah, there were two predominant patterns: vassalage and rebellion. »
« The Medes were allies of Babylon, and in 612 BCE participated in the massive rebellion that resulted in the fall of the Assyrian Empire. »
« Several years of fighting followed, and the Persians eventually crushed the rebellion in 494 BC (the Persians deported many of the Greek rebels to India as punishment). »
« However, Athens' decision to support the rebellion infuriated the Persians, and Darius began planning a full-scale invasion of Greece. »
« The political legacy of the Seleucid kingdom was one of almost constant rebellion and internal strife. »
« Especially in places like Egypt and Mesopotamia that had huge non-Greek populations, resentment could easily turn into open rebellion. »
« Pilate tried to hand the case over to the local Jewish puppet king, Herod, who in turn refused and handed Jesus back to Pilate. In the end, Jesus was executed by the Roman government for inciting rebellion, using the traditional Roman punishment of crucifixion. »
« In 656 Uthman died, the victim of a brief Egyptian rebellion against the Arabs. Ali was elected as the next caliph, apparently ending the dispute over who should lead the Ummah. Unfortunately for Muslim unity, however, a significant number of Arab leaders disagreed with Ali's policies and chose to support a potential rival caliph, a relative of Uthman's named Muawiya, a member of the Umayyad clan that ruled Syria. »

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