10 sentences with 'islands'
Example sentences and phrases with the word islands and other words derived from it.
• « Later, enterprising ancient humans built sea-going canoes and settled many of the Pacific islands. »
• « The Mycenaeans lived on the Greek mainland and on the Aegean islands and were known primarily as merchants and sea raiders. »
• « 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; »
• « The Greeks founded colonies on the North African coast and on the islands of the Mediterranean, especially Sicily. »
• « The last remnants of Persian troops were expelled from the Greek islands in 469 BC, some ten years after the great Greek victories of the Persian War, but Athens refused to allow any of the League members to give it up after the victory. »
• « The Romans, however, betrayed them and seized the islands of Corsica and Sardinia as well, territories that were still under Carthage's nominal control. »
• « After the First Punic War and the capture of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, the Roman provincial system emerged: the islands became "provinces" of the Republic, each of which was obliged to pay a tribute (the "tithe", meaning tenth, of all grain) and to follow the orders of Roman governors appointed by the Senate. »
• « After the "discovery" of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492, recalcitrant nobles were often sent as governors of islands thousands of miles away. »
• « The Ottomans went on to conquer vast territories, including both the lands of the early caliphates and, for the first time, parts of Europe that had never before been in the hands of Islamic rulers, including the islands of the eastern Mediterranean, Greece and the Balkans. »
• « While intra-Asian trade routes linking China, Korea, Japan, the western Pacific islands, Southeast Asia and India ensured that Asian states had access to wealth and luxury goods, Europeans had to rely on costly long-distance trade between Asia, the Middle East and Europe to access goods such as spices and porcelain that Europeans desperately wanted (as far as we can conclude based on the prices European elites were willing to pay for them) but could not produce themselves. »