6 sentences with “undermined”

The war had also inadvertently undermined the hoplitism-based social and political order of previous centuries.

Socrates never wrote anything down; like most of his contemporaries, he believed that writing destroyed memory and undermined meaning, preferring spoken discourse and memorisation.

Also, the practical issues of linguistic and cultural differences undermined the universalism ("catholicism") of the Christian Church. These differences and the diversity of beliefs would only grow over time.

Around 1050 BC, two of the victims of the collapse, the New Kingdom of Egypt and the Hittite Empire, left clear indications in their records that drought had undermined their grain stores and social stability.

A sufficiently serious war in Greece itself could easily have undermined harvests already close to subsistence level, and when destroyed by these conflicts, cities, fortresses and palaces could not be rebuilt.

In historical retrospect, however, slavery undermined both Roman productivity and the pace of innovation in Roman society. There was simply no need to look for new and better ways of doing things in the form of technological progress or social innovations because slave labour was always available.