9 sentences with 'clan'
Example sentences and phrases with the word clan and other words derived from it.
• « According to the Hebrew Bible, the first patriarch (male clan chief) of the Hebrews was Abraham, a man who led the Hebrews out of Mesopotamia around 1900 BCE. »
• « Historians divide Persian history into periods defined by the founding clan of a particular royal dynasty. »
• « The empire described in this chapter is called the Achaemenid Persian Empire, after its first ruling clan. »
• « In AD 224 the last Parthian ruler was overthrown by Ardashir I, the leader of the Sassanid clan, and Persian history entered a new phase under Sassanid rule. »
• « Everything changed in the Arab world in the 6th century AD. A man named Muhammad was born in 570 CE into a powerful merchant clan, the Quraysh, who controlled several trading companies in Mecca and the surrounding cities. »
• « These clan leaders feared that if Muhammad's message became popular, it would threaten the pilgrims who flocked to Mecca to worship the various deities: that would be bad for business. »
• « So, in 622 AD, Muhammad and a group of his followers left Mecca, exiled by the powerful families who were part of Muhammad's extended clan, and travelled to the city of Yathrib, which Muhammad later renamed Medina ("the city of the Prophet"), 200 miles to the north. »